Allotment Life


I've been growing vegetables on a city allotment since 2008, and keeping ex-battery hens since April 09. Prior to this, my experiance with horticulture was restricted to killing houseplants. As much as I've learned, I'm still a novice experimenting, making mistakes, and having surprising successes. So as another year begins, I thought it'd be fun to blog and photograph life and productivity at the allotment. If you're in the UK, and want to know more about allotments including how to get one, try visiting this site: Allotment Growing and The National Society of Allotment and Lesiure Gardeners.

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26th May 2010

Carrots are coming up a dream. As the soil in our area is so poor, very heavy clay, I grow carrots in raised beds, using about 18” of spent compost. Spent compost is better than fresh, as too much nutrient in the soil makes for loads of green growth and small (if almost non-existant) taproot. I’ve had plenty of success with carrots in the past two growing seasons, and the height of the sides of the bed (about 20”) keeps carrot root fly at bay.

Carrots are coming up a dream. As the soil in our area is so poor, very heavy clay, I grow carrots in raised beds, using about 18” of spent compost. Spent compost is better than fresh, as too much nutrient in the soil makes for loads of green growth and small (if almost non-existant) taproot.

I’ve had plenty of success with carrots in the past two growing seasons, and the height of the sides of the bed (about 20”) keeps carrot root fly at bay.

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