Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

270
active users

shakedown.social: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#allotment

43 posts33 participants3 posts today
Replied to Leigh Silvester
Public
Broadfork

@leighms Good luck! I’m growing the same variety also bought from Chiltern Seeds, a local nursery to me in Oxfordshire.

I’ve grown chickpeas once before ten years ago. They grew ok but the harvest was so small to not be worth repeating. Our summers are warmer nowadays, time for another go.

I’m also growing Carlin peas and Latvian peas which are touted as a chickpea alternative that are better suited to UK growing conditions.
#GrowYourOwn #Allotment #HomeGrown

Four chickpea plants growing on in recycled yoghurt pots next to a grey water butt alongside a wall. The plants will be transplanted out on an allotment plot in a few days time. They are growing well, there’s even a single white flower showing. A few leaves of tree spinach plants are visible growing in yoghurt pots next to them.
Public
Leigh Silvester

Among this year's #allotment experiments I will be trying chickpeas and Stregonta bush beans.
Germination good so far.

About to sow Greek Gigante beans, bit like butter beans. Been successful with these in the past.

Am in the Nottingham area so not sure how the chickpeas will do.

Chickpea seedlings in root trainers
Bean seedlings in small pots
Public
Mactonex

And the floor is down! Couple of minor tweaks left (sand in between the pavers, maybe some corner braces) but this wood store is essentially finished. The flagstones came off Freecycle, pebbles came out of the ground when I levelled it (yes, it’s a very stony part of the allotment) and the three bits of stone have been sat on my plot for twenty years waiting patiently to become useful. The moral of the story children, is never throw ANYTHING away! #allotment #recycling #making

My wood store with the floor finished. It is made of red wood and the floor is a combination of flagstones, sandstone and pavers, all edged with pebbles.
A detail of the edge of the floor of my wood store. Concrete flagstones are edged with paver bricks, which in turn are edged by pebbles.
Public
Lauren

Cauliflowers and a couple of smaller kales and wong bok now in the ground. A combo of dried bramble rings and egg shells for organic slug repellent (but it’s a much less bad year for slugs so far). I’ve never tried brassica rings, I just press them firmly into the ground around the roots and it’s worked so far.

Bonus pic of the wildflower area between the brassica cage and potting shed #allotment #growyourown

View under netted hoops of newly planted brassicas, each encircled in egg shells which looks bright against the brown soil. My shadow is cast across the ground and I’m doing a peace sign.
Outside view of the brassica cage with the doors now shut. Big hollyhock plants and garlic plants can be seen nearby.
A bright blue potting shed on tall legs with a bed of wildflowers. Foxgloves, phacelia, white aquilegia, birds foot trefoil, red clover, and other plants can be seen next to a hawthorn hedge.
Public
Richard Rollinson

Garden update. A wet, foggy & cool morning here. Everything set out is doing ok, but could probably do with some sunshine soon. The volunteer Clematis is flowering gloriously & trying to strangle the azalea bush beneath. There are tiger lillies pushing up in front, vying for space in the wonderful mess. Too wet to plant out the eggplant starts just yet, but soon. Corn & the various cucurbits are in the greenhouse trying to germinate.
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening

Close overhead view of 5 Clematis blossoms fully open. Each flower is a pale lavender, has 8 petals, a yellow center and are fully open. Background is the pale green foliage of the Clematis vine.
A vegetable garden on a wet, foggy morning. Several rows of plants are visible. Front row are green bell peppers, next is a row of lettuce, beets, and cabbage under fleece. Then a row of onions and two rows of tomato plants. Background is an area of garden yet to be planted. There is a light fog hanging in the air and the soil is very wet.
A Clematis vine with numerous pale lavender flowers all fully open and a lot of flower buds yet to open. The vine is growing on top of an Azalea bush which is also in flower with bright red flowers. In front are a lot of tiger lillies pushing up to the sun. An old aluminum ladder is leaning up against a grey building and chimney in the background.
Public *
Tau

Phew! Finished moving the horizontal roof beams to 3in down to go level with the beam, now to stretch the plastic sheet.

Resolved the watering set up, found a 3way attachment, one inlet 2 outlet so now can use the spray hose AND the nozzle at the same time. :0)

Beans seem contented if not actually happy, while the broadbeans carry on regardless of the weather.

Strawberries are growing nicely and are tasty! Courgette flowering, cauli and cabbage and carrots getting on, leeks and garlic also.

Break time now, too hot under the sunshine so am moving under the willow.

Plot view with hoses
Three way hose link.
Glasshouse roof, 'plastic house ' doesn't sound good.
#allotment#gardening#nature
Public
Yvan

Got any grapes?

The Boskoop Glory from Suttons arrived as a bigger plant than expected! (Fine by me!) Also in the box is the Cabernet Sauvignon and hiding down the bottom a little Brown Turkey fig.

These are all for the #allotment greenhouse. I'm going to put a grape in at each rear*-corner and the fig opposite the door. They will be trained to grow along the wall in a sort of trellised/espalier style.

* meaning the non-sunward side of the greenhouse

Looking down into a tall box with a tall grape plant inside it and black plastic pots in the base.
A basic sketch showing the rectangle of a greenhouse, growing locations of plants, and the rough sun arc.
Public
Richard Rollinson

Since the ground is still too wet for any further planting out, today became "move all the compost mulch" day. We had enough of our own compost to manage doing about ¾ of the tomato plants. The rest will have to make do with grass clippings and shredded leaf mold as they become available. Weather continues to be cool and wet. At least the cabbage and lettuce likes it. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#compost
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#tomato
@gardening

A black garden card filled with garden compost to be used as mulch. A long-handled pitch fork is resting on top of the load. Mulched garden pathway in background. To the right rear is a weedy patch of milkweed just sprouting.
A 40 foot /12 m wide garden patch showing two rows of tomato plants. There are 13 plants in each row and they are staked up and have wire cages around them. Each plant is about 18 inches/45cm tall. A deep layer of compost mulch has just been spread around the plants in the left row.
A wire mesh compost bin with some old carpeting for side coverage. Bin has one side removed and has been partially emptied. A sizeable pile of compost remains to be forked out. A patch of raspberries is in the background.
ExploreLive feeds
About