AmexRuislip
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Photos from 2015.
Photos June 2016
Still a lot to grow
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Official allotment thread.
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Photos from 2015.
Photos June 2016
Still a lot to grow
AmexRuislip
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I note that all your tender leaves are whole, untrammelled by slugs and snails .........your secret is
I read somewhere that slugs lay eggs in the ground over winter.
I take great delight in raking and digging over the beds in the winter months.
Hence the eggs come to the surface, get eaten by the birds, whilst keeping me warm in the winter.
Occasional slug pellets also.
Mr Putdown
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Those pictures show probably the best allotment I've seen in years.
I'm seriously impressed. (And a wee but jealousy, mine has never looked like that even in a good year.)
I'm seriously impressed. (And a wee but jealousy, mine has never looked like that even in a good year.
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AmexRuislip
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Those pictures show probably the best allotment I've seen in years.
I'm seriously impressed. (And a wee but jealousy, mine has never looked like that even in a good year.
Cheers chap, it's taken a few back breaking years of clearing couch grass and double digging to clear decent drainage for the soil, especially the abundance of London clay.
Some good use of blue water main pipe in your photos.
Where's your shed made out of doors ?
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I wondered who was taking photos of my house
Every time I go past some allotments I see sheds like these.
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Shed was claimed from a nearby garden, which was not being used (5x8)Some good use of blue water main pipe in your photos.
Where's your shed made out of doors ?
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Do Community Gardens count?
Coldeanseagull
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Are those of us who grow veg in our gardens allowed on this thread?
I definitely think yes. I only grow soft fruit and rhubarb amongst my palms and hedychiums but I'll be having an opinion
Seriously tidy allotment OP, a joy to look at.
I wondered who was taking photos of my house
My dad had an allotment near where I grew up in Brighton, he had a shed made out of various doors and scraps of wood.
He also had a greenhouse made of old windows and frames, he used to take me to the allotment to ' help ' or my mum probably told him to take me, to get some peace, one day I dug a series of trenches in and around the greenhouse because I was bored and it nearly collapsed.
Don't think he took me again.
AmexRuislip
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My dad had an allotment near where I grew up in Brighton, he had a shed made out of various doors and scraps of wood.
He also had a greenhouse made of old windows and frames, he used to take me to the allotment to ' help ' or my mum probably told him to take me, to get some peace, one day I dug a series of trenches in and around the greenhouse because I was bored and it nearly collapsed.
Don't think he took me again.
The greenfingers skipped a generation, my grandad was great in the garden, especially runner beans.
My wife is the green expert, I know enough to get by, but mainly build things and dig holes
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AmexRuislip
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good effort fella, nice delphiniums, you obviously know your onions
Thank you, I thought that too(delphiniums I mean), but my wife says she planted Fox gloves
rogersix
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Thank you, I thought that too(delphiniums I mean), but my wife says she planted Fox gloves
so im the fool
and your wife does the magic 
AmexRuislip
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