New Year and more veg to look forward to

Hello All

As you can see today has been a gorgeous day , if a bit cold, for getting down the allotment. I was surprised to see so few weeds and just grass as the main problem I had to deal with. Having moved house and had Christmas nad New Year as well it has been about 6 weeks since we managed to get to the lottie. So I was really surprised to see how well it is doing

As you can see I have anenomes and sweet william still in flower

as well as cauli 's and cabbage.

Today we got Cabbage, Cauli, Leeks and Potatoes out of the lottie

The Rhubarb is doing very well and we hope to be getting some nice stuff off it later in the year. We have a new addition to the lottie this year. We have been given a gooseberry bush , form another plot holder. She had 5 and wanted to get rid of soeme them and we got the largest. It is a reliable cropper and the friut is really sweet. We are already waiting for them.

Anway Have a great 2007 and a great year on your lotties

All the best Mim

We have moved at last

Hello All

Just a quickie, we have moved at last and are sorting out our furniture and stuff.

After a disaster with the furniture people delievering the wrong items and haveing some missing we are not best pleased, but better to sort out the problems now and get what we want than wait and bad service again.

Anyway if I cannot post again before Christmas, have a good one and hope to hear from some of you soon

Yours Mim

Hello Again lottie people

I hope you can see that all my hard work atweeding has still not paid off and we still have a lot of work to do.


















As you can see we have made a good start on sorting out the weeds at the front of the lottie and by the time you read this all of the lettuce stalks and sunflowers are down and so are the beans.


Here you can see the only 2 crops we have left on the lottie. 2 lots of winter and spring cabbages and the leeks are just behind me to the right.

Other allotments on the site have more veg and some stuff already planted for next year, we are having to wait a month or so before we can really make any headway as we are planning a house move. But when we move our new garden , which we will have to start from stratch is about the size of the lottie, so we may be looking at getting a smaller lottie closer to where we will be moving to.

So watch this space. We will not be giving up on lottieing as we really enjoy eating the friuts of our labour, just dont always enjoy the hard work.

Hope to hear from you all soon

Mim

Long time no veg

Hello All

I am now starting to dig my lottie over for next year and starting to plan where I think the new raised beds will go ready for next year.

I am digging up all the remains of any veg left over from the summer, keeping any onions or garlic and storing the potatos that are appearing from no where.

My veg has all but finished now except the leeks and spring cabbage.

I am in the process of moving house and hope to be able to keep the lottie going for at lest the next year and will try to get one closer to our new house if one is availbale about March, which is when the clsoer site to our new house lets them become available.

Anyway hope to hear from some of you soon

Yours Doidge

Hello again campers

Hello all

just a quick post

I have been on holiday this week to Jersey and have seen some lovely gardens and walked past peoples allotments and they are very well kept makes me very envious of what they are doing. We will see how much I can improve my allotment with the ideas I have picked up.

Yours badrill