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It must be March in New England. We had a high temp yesterday of 79⁰F/26⁰C and today we're at 38⁰F/4⁰C. Par for the course. I noticed that the green bell pepper & tomato seedlings were starting to show some purple mottling on their leaves, which might be a phosphorus deficiency or maybe they're a little chilly, but I gave them a shot of liquid fertilizer this morning, just in case. It won't be too long before they get potted on (weather permitting).
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Zone6b
Close view from directly above of a green bell pepper seedling showing purple mottling on the leaves. Plant is about 2 inches/5cm across. It's in an orange silicone potting cell with brown potting mix. A wooden Popsicle stick marks the pot with date and plant id.
Close view from directly above of a green bell pepper seedling showing purple mottling on the leaves. Plant is about 2 inches/5cm across. It's in an orange silicone potting cell with brown potting mix.
A person's left hand holds a 500ml squeeze bottle filled with a slightly bluish liquid which is plant fertilizer. On the table behind is a tray containing silicone seed starting cells containing green bell pepper and tomato seedlings. Most of the seedlings are about 2 inches/5cm across. In background are other seed starting trays under fluorescent lights.
#newengland #Gardening #allotment #zone6b

Some now rusting puppy fencing around one of the growing beds. #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment
12 rusting metal fence panels form a rectangular boundary to deter inquisitive muntjac from a growing bed. Some top soil dug out from making a hűgelkultur bed, leaf litter and wood chip all mulch the bed itself. Behind the fenced bed is a grey wooden shed with a blue door. An upturned pallet of a compost area contains various canes and poles. A black downpipe feeds rainwater from the shed roof into a green water butt. A flower bed is to the side of the fence with some yet to flower daffodils among the weeds. A nature reserve tree line is the backdrop beyond the plot.
#Gardening #allotment #growyourown

Early potatoes are dibbed in, covered with soil and then with hessian covers. I’m interested to see what the badgers do with them.

The beds have been regularly visited by badgers rooting around for earthworms since autumn. Sadly, they have had too much of a good thing. #NoDig #Gardening #Allotment
An allotment plot with two strips of hessian or burlap material covering beds where early potatoes have been dibbed into the soil. A jostaberry bush is in leaf and almost hides the greenhouse behind it. There are several containers of compost to one side with fresh green growth of phacelia coming up in front. On the other side of the Jostaberry is a stack of perennial sunflower stalks which will be chopped up and used to mulch the potatoes.
#Gardening #allotment #nodig

The mustard green manure in the allotment greenhouse has been doing well in the spring sunshine. #NoDig #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment
A greenhouse with mustard green manure growing well in the beds. Feeding the soil biology. These will be chopped and dropped before they flower. Some komatsuna with yellow flowers will be harvested next visit. Four green bins are in the central pathway and contain harvested rainwater.
#Gardening #allotment #growyourown #nodig #mulch

Squeezed a sunny #allotment trip into the end of the day. Got the two compost bays forked into the end bay. The compost is nowhere near ready, though mostly this is from the latter half of last year so no surprise. It was definitely far too try. We've been too conscientious about keeping it covered, and never added any water. So I'm hoping now a little more stomped down and wetted as I rebuilt the pile it'll start doing the good stuff! I suspect it'll need another turn nearer the end of this year, and with any luck we'll have a decent bay of compost by next spring.
Three pallet compost bays, the nearer and right two are empty, the middle one is lined with blue plastic sheet, the third one on the right has a front on it and is full of material.
#allotment

Plot progress. The front half is almost ready for sowing and planting up from next month onwards.

A Jostaberry now occupies the space the mass of wild brambles used to.
#NoDig #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #Mulch #Allotment
No dig gardening beds, some in the process of being made, run down the length of an allotment plot either side of a wood chip central path. Bags of collected wood chip are lying on cardboard with some rolls of wire mesh which will be used to protect a bed from curious muntjac. A couple of reclaimed water tanks will be sunk into the space in between the no dig beds for their new life as ponds.
A two year old Jostaberry plant taken from a cutting freshly transplanted and mulched with wood chip in an allotment bed. Some cardboard is placed as weed suppressant where a pathway will be in between the Jostaberry and a nettle patch. Wild brambles have been trained along a post and wire fence. Beyond that is a footpath and a re-laid hedge of a nature reserve. An elderberry is growing to the left surrounded with wood chip mulch.
#Gardening #allotment #growyourown #nodig #mulch

We send greetings to all of our gardening friends, both north and south, on the equinox. For us it means more sunlight and warmer days ahead. BeetBear is taking the time to clean off his sign on our tool shed door.
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#Equinox
#gardeningau
#gardeningNZ
A ten inch tall (25cm), light brown teddy bear in green overalls sits on top of an orange and yellow fiberglass stepladder. His name is BeetBear. He is holding a beet in his right paw. There is a bunch of beets embroidered on the bib of his overalls. He is looking at a sign on the door of a grey and white garden shed. The sign says "Beware of Attack Bear".
#newengland #equinox #Gardening #gardeningau #allotment #gardeningnz #beetbear #zone6b

One muntjac and pigeon protected growing space made from reused wood, wire mesh and netting.

This will probably be for growing broad beans and then brassicas.
#GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig
A wooden framed bed about 1.2 metres high with black netting over the top and wire mesh around the sides. The bed will be weeded and sown with broad beans and maybe some field beans too. It will have a detachable mesh frame at the far end or a weighed down netted flap.
#Gardening #allotment #growyourown #nodig

Yet another benefit of Remote working - no one can see the soil under your fingernails after a bit of lunchtime weeding.

Testifying to the finding that skin contact with microbes in soil benefits our microbiome/gut-brain axis & boosts mental wellbeing. Dataset of a noisy 1n.

#gardening #allotment
#Gardening #allotment

Ok, here is the most boring video you will see today! I have set up the fan to make the tomato seedlings (and other stuff) wiggle slightly in the breeze. This is supposed to promote stronger seedlings and I've done it for a few years now without actually doing any with/without experimenting.
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening
#newengland #Gardening #allotment #zone6b @gardening group

I haven't done front-view plot photos for a while... it's funny actually, I've realised that since I now record videos to document our allotment progress I'm taking fewer photos. I should try and remember to take photos still as they're a better (and more searchable) record.

I took some today and also this "panorama" shot... which makes it look like I'm standing at a corner lol. Really that road left and right is one straight line and the left of the photo is the front of the polytunnel plot and the right is the front of the new plot.

#allotment
A "panoramic" photo of two allotment plots, taken standing right between them with the dividing pallet fence straight ahead. The left plot has a large polytunnel on it and raised beds in front, the right plot is a mess with various things scattered around and the frame of a greenhouse. To the front of the plot is three large mounds of woodchip, and to the right pallet-constructed compost bays fronting onto the roadway which is visible both to the left and right of the photo as it's a panoramic style shot (in reality this roadway is a straight line).
#allotment

Meanwhile Kat completed the side quest of removing the old buddleia from next to the greenhouse. We were surprised to discover it was actually a labelled bought specimen! The label was buried amongt the root level. I feel a bit mean about yeeting it now... but its just not the right spot for it. Not sure it'd survive being put in somewhere else.

#allotment
A dirty faded plant label that you can just make out says "Black Knight".
A stump of a buddliea on the ground next to some disturbed flattened ground, a railway sleeper behind with a greenhouse frame on it.
#allotment

This afternoon's #allotment job was to work on the long raised beds on the polytunnel plot. First trenching along the edges then lining with plastic sheet* before levelling off. Next we will top these with as much compost as we can scrape out of the oldest bay (mainly year+ old horse manure) and then they're ready for planting.

These beds were part of the original design for the plot but for four seasons have just been long mounds as we didn't have timber for sides. The timber is spare from a deadwork building project, we put it in place at the end of last season. I've been wedged on doing fancy metal stability stakes for it for ages but finally just went with screwing it together as we need beds really soon.

Now their usable area will increase from about 50cm to over a meter, should double the productivity! 😅

* plastic sheet/membrane also left over from deadwork, I wouldn't buy it for the purpose but I'll use it if it's effectively free and surplus.
A long raised bed with high timber beam sides, the earth inside mounded towards the centre. A similar one is to the left, and a half with one full of grassy weed amd tubs to the right.
Oblique view of two long raised beds with flattened out earth inside them about half to 2/3 of way up the inside, surrounded by woodchip. The side of a polytunnel in the background.
#allotment

Vegetation cleared in readiness for fencing. A successful working party at the allotments. 15 members turned up which was great to see. #Allotment
Vegetation has been stripped away from an old barbed wire fence line that separates an allotment site on the right from its neighbour’s scrubland. The vegetation has been piled up to form a dead hedge of sorts. A chain link fence rescued from a nearby tennis court will be erected along this boundary line starting from the green shed in the distance. About 50 metres of the 90 metre long boundary was cleared away from the fence line today.
#allotment

The greenhouse full of soil blocks. It’s sow time. #GrowYourOwn #SeedStarting #SoilBlocks #GreenManures #Gardening #Allotment
An unheated greenhouse with plastic propagator trays covering a bench down one side and shelf units at the end and other side. The trays are full of soil blocks. Some have been sown, most will have smaller seed blocks transplanted into them when their seeds have germinated from warmer propagation indoors. Green manures of ryegrass and broad beans cover the greenhouse beds. Some over wintering crops are still to be harvested. Komatsuna are growing nearest the door. A brindle boxer dog is sitting inside the greenhouse looking slightly bored with the gardening antics.
#Gardening #allotment #growyourown #seedstarting #soilblocks #greenmanures

Germination achieved for 'Mikado' (a potato-leaved heirloom and possible ancestor of 'Brandywine'), 'Honey Drop' (an open-pollinated yellow cherry touted as tasting like white grapes), and 'San Marzano' (a plum choice for canning). #tomatoes #garden #gardening #seedlings #germination #vegetables #allotment
Six square pots filled with soilless media and sporting white plastic knives with tomato names written on them with a black marker. The front three have small seedlings.
#vegetables #Gardening #garden #allotment #tomatoes #seedlings #germination

So, gardeners, is there any good use for eggshells now that it's established that they don't prevent blossom end rot in tomatoes and don't deter slugs in lettuce plantings? Am wondering whether they would work as an inert for repotting orchids, or perhaps as a decorative addition to my miniature rock garden. Thanks for suggestions. #eggs #eggshells #calcium #tomatoes #slugs #garden #gardening #allotment
One-gallon ziploc bag filled with finely-ground brown eggshells, resting on a scale that reads, "4 lbs 15 7/8 oz."
#Gardening #eggs #garden #allotment #slugs #calcium #tomatoes #eggshells

The planting continues. We now have added Parsley (Giant of Italy), Cabbage (Blue Vantage), and BeetBear's beloved Beets (Boro). MUCH more planting to follow...
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening
A ten inch tall (25cm), light brown teddy bear in green overalls sits looking directly at the camera. His name is BeetBear. He is holding a beet in his right paw. There is a bunch of beets embroidered on the bib of his overalls. He is sitting in a tan tray that holds 8 silicone cell-packs, orange in color. Each pack contains 6 cells filled with dirt and has a wooden stick with the contents of the tray written on it. In this case, 4 of them say "Parsley" and 6 of them say "Beets" they also are marked with the date of planting, which is March 9th.
A ten inch tall (25cm), light brown teddy bear in green overalls sits looking directly at the camera. His name is BeetBear. He is holding a beet in his right paw. There is a bunch of beets embroidered on the bib of his overalls. He is holding a shovel in his left paw and is sitting on top of a pile of potting soil. In front of him are two silicone cell packs in the process of being filled with soil. Background is brown peg board.
#newengland #Gardening #allotment #beetbear #zone6b @gardening group

Here's my 10 x 25' plot at the community garden. To keep the birds off my peas and the squirrels off my tomatoes I've draped netting over the center portion that contains trellises made of concrete reinforcement panels. #garden #gardening #allotment #fence #peas #tomatoes #swarthmore #GrowYourOwn #VerticalGardening
Rectangular vegetable garden with a 4' chicken-wire perimeter, entry door, and 6 rows of trellises.
#Gardening #garden #allotment #growyourown #peas #tomatoes #Fence #Swarthmore #verticalgardening

Well, got a few good things done down the #allotment today.

Probably left it a little late, but the BBQ is now getting on the go. The sun still shines. Michaelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen is playing on the speaker. Shitty macro lagers are on ice. Things are burning.
A hexagonal formation of house bricks with a fire of blackened timber in the centre.
A scene with a large rusted oil drum incinerator in the left foreground, in the right midgrouns a tripod BBQ grill over a brick ring, and to the centre a bag labelled CHARCOAL. Other allotment trash behind.
#allotment

The allotment in spring. A whole load of fresh cut beech woodchip put down. My brother dragged it all out of the woods where they cut fallen trees. An hour each bin load on the trolley! I told him he didn't need to, but he insisted. Free exercise.

#gardening #allotment
Bottom of the allotment, covered in fresh woodchip. There's a composter, bins and a hazel tree.
Top garden area of the allotment, sparse spring growth above a small flagged terrace. Two small cypresses in pots flank central steps upwards to a curving stepping stone path. A pallet fence sits at the top. Sunshine shines down.
View from the top of the allotment downhill, showing the garden area, the terrace with raised beds and the hazel tree in the distance at the bottom. Terraced houses rise above the fence at the bottom of the hill.
#Gardening #allotment

The hedge laying is done for now. It needs tidying and I need to find some better stakes and more binders to finish the job, but the pleaching work is all done.

There’s now a recognisable pathway between the nature reserve and the plot.

Moments after taking this a fox poked its head around the corner before ambling off again. 🦊
#Hedge #Allotment #Gardening #Biodiversity
A relaid hedge of various species including holly, willow, hazel, hornbeam, guilder rose and blackthorn down the side of an allotment plot. There’s now a clear pathway between the hedge and an allotment plot. The greener side of a shed has pallet wood and a paving slab leaning against it. Next to an elder is a palleted compost heap and the start of a hűgel bed which looks like a pile of brushwood and hedge clearings.
#biodiversity #Gardening #allotment #hedge

First the garden center near me didn’t think they even had pond liner, even though it said online they did. Then we managed to locate it, but then they didn’t know how to charge for it. Spent a total of 30min waiting, but the end result is that I now have a small lined pond! :)
#allotment #gardening #biodiversity
A small, empty pond lined with a pvc liner, and with rocks holding the liner down. Edges are still raw. Size is around 1.2x1.5m
#biodiversity #Gardening #allotment

Looks like a racoon visiting the property decided to chance crossing the sea of mud that is our veg. patch..😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening
A trail of racoon footprints in soft mud trailing from bottom to top away from the camera. Mud is brown and very wet looking. A metal ruler for scale at bottom shows the nearest print to be about 3 inches / 7.6 cm in width.
#newengland #Gardening #allotment #zone6b @gardening group

Finally! After about 2 month's delay due to bad winter weather, I have finally finished pruning the last of my apple trees. This one is about 50 years old and is a heritage New England variety called "Baldwin". Makes the best pies ever and the apples keep a good, long time. Now on to prune the raspberry patch. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#apples
#Orchard
@gardening
A mature apple tree set in a grassy field. Tree shows massive vertical growth at the top and reaches about 28 feet / 8.5 meters in height. Most of the branches are bare but a few leaves cling on near the tips of the sprouts. Bright sun, clear blue sky. A few houses and sheds appear in the background. Tree needs a lot of pruning.
A mature apple tree set in a grassy field. Tree has been pruned of all vertical growth and is now about 15 feet/ 4.5 meters in height. All of the branches are bare. Bright sun, clear blue sky. A few houses and sheds appear in the background. Tree has been given a good pruning. A black garden cart full of pruned branches sits under the tree.
#newengland #Gardening #allotment #orchard #zone6b #apples @gardening group

I’ve lived most of my life without a patch of land to grow stuff in. Now, I have a square of sad, pointless grass. I’ve made the leap and planted some cold resistant carrots in a grow bag & made the first wild spring salad with dandelions just come up. May my spoons hold…I have plans. #gardening while #spoonie Any green thumbs in cold climes have tips for easy wins? I’m new at this. #orkney #Scotland #compost #allotment
#scotland #Gardening #compost #allotment #spoonie #orkney

I'm the chip maaan! Be bap ba badoop ba.

He may be back later with more, and possibly also some small willow logs if I'm lucky. (For fungi funtimes.)

Was a bit of a rush getting here so I'm sat down in the polytunnel to chill, where is is a balmy 12°C.

It was wet overnight and the place is sodden, but it seems to be clearing and brightening this morning. Time to make up for being such a wimp yesterday.

#allotment
A graph showing temperature with 5°C early sunday on the left, spiking to 12°C Sunday day, then just undrr 9°C overnight and now rapidly back up to 11.84°C.
A large pile of fresh woodchip.
#allotment

I’ve been clearing more brambles on the new half. I found the spikiest bits and have started making my slug defences for spring. These rings can go around transplanted brassicas to act as barbed wire. I make them while the plants are green and bendy, then dry them out for use in a couple of months.

If you don’t want to hurt your hands tying them you can just cut straight lengths to dry too, particularly good for rows of peas!

#allotment #gardening
A gloved hand holding multiple rings of thorny blackberry canes, each tied with string to make a circle. On the floor in the background is a big pile of cut brambles laying on blue plastic sheeting.
#Gardening #allotment

Later in the year I’ll cut grass and dry it for mulching the beds but this is all going on the compost heap. I’ve just taken the front half of the plot on and it’s quite overgrown. #Allotment #Gardening
Two compost bays made from pallets. The left hand bay is less than a third full but is being added to steadily. The right hand pile is made from compostable material that is 40-60 days old and has been turned three times. A bag of sawdust is in front of the right hand pile.
#Gardening #allotment

Before and after clearing one of the soft fruit beds.#GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #NoDig #Allotment
An overgrown bed of various soft fruit bushes with grasses and weeds covering the ground. A yellow trug provides some colour on a drab day.
The bed cleared of grass and weeds. Now revealing currant bushes, a loganberry or tayberry and a gooseberry. About half of the bed has been mulched with wood chip. Some stakes are lying on the ground after having their old tangled wires removed.
#allotment #growyourown #nodig #homegrown

#introduction Hi, looking forward to hanging out here, myself I spend my time playing #acousticguitar doing covers mainly, growing #veg at home and down the #allotment ; #repair broken things although I have been known to blow them up when things go wrong!. Designing and building in wood when I get the urge (furniture, cajon drum most recently) reading all sorts of #books, particularly #scifi and #historicalfiction and enjoy #boardgames with friends, plus plenty of #running #yoga #strengthtraining
#historicalfiction #introduction #books #boardgames #scifi #repair #yoga #allotment #running #acousticguitar #veg #strengthtraining

Nice sunny day for adding some fresh sawdust to the allotment paths. #NoDig #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment
An allotment bed with wood shavings and sawdust down as paths in an almost H shape. A wooden square with faded blue paint is the lid to the wormbox that’s buried in the ground. A greenhouse is to the left with some green manures in the beds. Next to that is a row of pruned autumn fruiting raspberries. In the centre bed there are two junior jostaberry shrubs with a compost heap in between them.
Allotment beds framed with some freshly applied sawdust to the pathways. Low winter sunlight is hazing the picture. Two beds have some ryegrass green manure growing in them. One bed was sown with field beans in November but these have been picked clean by the local wildlife. Another bed has the residue of the leaf amaranths crop from last summer/autumn. Some houses are in the background.
#Gardening #allotment #growyourown #nodig

A freshly turned compost heap. #Compost #Mulch #Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn
Pallets form a u shaped compost bay in front of an old shed with three windows. A compost heap has been turned into the left hand corner of the bay. An upturned metal wheelbarrow leans against a bag of wood shavings and sawdust in the other corner. Branches of an elder are leaning over into the space. A neighbours green poly tunnel is in the background.
#Gardening #compost #allotment #growyourown #mulch

Our other regular tomato varieties are (True?) Black Brandywine and Green Zebra, they always have a spot in the #allotment polytunnel. The only thing preventing Black Brandywine from being a preferred sauce tomato is it has a more limited yield. Green Zebra look and taste beaut and are fun.

We then always grow 3 colours of cherry tomato: Red, Yellow, and "Black".

We've been growing Black Cherry from Chiltern Seeds for years, because there must have been something like 50+ seeds in that seed packet which we're still using. (Same for the Green Zebra.)

Our yellow is Galina, which did wonderfully last year, and our red is Primabella, which was less impressive - both from Real Seeds.

We're also giving De Colgar another go, it has potential, tasted good, is unique ... but was very badly prone to blossom end rot last year (a general problem we had, probably due watering, need to be better at watering.)

And that's the lot, 10 varieties...
#allotment

We're sort of homing in on a "house" sauce tomato which forms something like 50% of our #allotment polytunnel planting. We have simply given up on growing San Marzano varieties in the UK, maybe we've been unlucky with seed, but it's just always been a struggle over a couple of different seed sources.

Right now we've had good success with Amish Paste from Real Seeds, which despite a late start last year gave us a good ripened yield (and so much unripe fruit, a lot of potential there with a proper start.)

We also have Jersey Giant as a contender, it is and it is a beautiful multi-hue tomato but very hard to find seed for. We got the seed for this as a free bonus with a Fatali chilli seed order. Best bonus seed I've ever had. It is very low seed count, but we have a tiny number of the original seed which I must be careful to ensure some controlled pollination with this year, and I have some saved seed.

So the "maincrop" will be 50/50 Amish Paste & Jersey Giant this year.
#allotment

@Broadfork. New things for our 2025 gardening season include wild rocket (Sylvetta Arugula), rocket (Arugala Arugala), nasturtium, Ethiopian Eggplant (Solanum Aethiopicum). We are hoping the rocket self sows enthusiastically. #gardening, #allotment, #minnesota.
#Gardening #minnesota #allotment @Broadfork

Finally found the time to enter my info for ProjectFeederWatch week number 10. Data may be viewed here:
https://data.feederwatch.org/pfw/count/summary?id=S208338672
We had 20 species and 116 individuals this week. A surprise visitor this week was one little Gold Finch hanging around with all the House Finches. Winter is really starting to bite and it's been a chore to keep the water trays open. 😀
#ProjectFeederWatch
#Birds
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
@gardening
#Winter
#winter #newengland #birds #Gardening #allotment #ProjectFeederWatch @gardening group

Just finished entering the data for week number 7 of this year's Project Feeder Watch. Data may be viewed here:
https://data.feederwatch.org/pfw/count/summary?id=S205529279
Nothing unusual this week. A Cooper's Hawk tried and failed to nab a House Sparrow at the suet feeders. It managed to get away in the dense White Cedar canopy above the feeders. No Flickers this week, but lots of other woodpeckers. We had 20 species and 138 individuals counted this week. 😀
#ProjectFeederWatch
#birds
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#newengland #birds #Gardening #allotment #ProjectFeederWatch

A bit tardy, but here's my Project Feeder Watch data for week number 6 this season.
https://data.feederwatch.org/pfw/count/summary?id=S204947934
Starting to see some finches with eye disease so I have stepped up my feeder cleaning routine. One dead finch found so far...
Otherwise we had 20 species and 152 individuals this week. Mostly the usual crowd, but the Juncos are still arriving.
#ProjectFeederWatch
#birds
#NewEngland
#gardening
#Allotment
@gardening
#newengland #birds #Gardening #allotment #ProjectFeederWatch @gardening group

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