Growing
Our growing is mainly focussed around edible crops – vegetables, fruit and herbs. We also grow flowers in herbaceous borders, raised beds, pots and hanging baskets at both the allotment and at home.
Planting garlic to overwinter
Great ‘No Dig’ Carrot harvest
Return from holiday: how bad can the plot be? (end of August)
We have been away for a week on holiday. Although we have been active at the plot before going away, there has not been any general weeding for 26 days bar clearing a few beds to pop in autumn/winter crops. This can happen at this time of year as between all the rain showers we are busy picking crops. How bad can the weeds be? What crops are ready?
Free strawberry plants! Propagating strawberries in late Summer
Epic onion harvest! – Basil, onions and planting more brassicas.
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How to take cuttings from blueberries. Rachel discusses a simple technique to propagate your blueberry plants from softwood cuttings. Expand your fruit garden for free
Harvesting New Potatoes – change in 2 weeks?
Rachel harvests a 30L tub of International Kidney (Jersey Royal) early potatoes to look at the growth of the tubers in a 2 week period of (mainly) rain.
How long does it take to weed a 250sqm ‘No Dig’ vegetable plot: weekly
Here Rachel completes a tour with a difference where she discusses the crops grown on plot four whilst demonstrating the weed managment techniques used on our ‘no dig’ garden in real time. Plot four is half our allotment space on our allotment in Manchester, UK.
July tour of our 500 square metre established vegetable garden
A full tour of our 500 square metre allotment plot in Manchester, UK – including polytunnel, greenhouse, coldframes, fruitcage, mini fruit orchard, summerhouse, raised bed vegetable garden, wildlife pond and flowerborders.
We use NoDig gardening techniques to manage the garden that produces most of our (plant based) annual food needs.
Polytunnel tour – our first season with a polytunnel
Although we have had a plot for around 15 years last winter we erected a #polytunnel. This season we are using the tunnel to trial growing sweetcorn, melons and (more tropical) beans alongside standard ‘greenhouse’ crops. Here rachel has a look at what is growing in early July.