If you show me yours...

[JulieSherris]

Growing things - it all looks lovely!!

Here's ours - just starting out - and so far, so good....

[Annpan]

Good Lord Julie!!!! that is freakishly neat!!!! did I spy a planting template too!!!!!

But I did notice a board in your 4th photo that doesn't meet the other perfectly....

A tidy plot is the sign of a sick mind

[JulieSherris]

Good Lord Julie!!!! that is freakishly neat!!!! did I spy a planting template too!!!!!

But I did notice a board in your 4th photo that doesn't meet the other perfectly....

A tidy plot is the sign of a sick mind

Ann, bu&&er off!

Hehehe.... I told you Andy's OCD is probably catching......
I'll be doing housework next......

[Annpan]

[red]

View from the allotment...

I though.. oh wonder where that is.. looks just like Torbay

oh it is Torbay

[room101]

View from the allotment...

I though.. oh wonder where that is.. looks just like Torbay

oh it is Torbay

[Urban Ayisha]

julie... your husband's hard work really paid off it looks flippin incredible! thats the kind of allotment i would LOVE! mine is a bit more 'artistic', shall we say...

[JulieSherris]

Ayisha, if it leaves you with dirty fingernails & you get to eat the fruits (or veg) of your labours, then it doesn't matter how artistic it is!

Don't worry though, I shall soon have it as untidy as I'm allowed shortly

[Urban Ayisha]

you rebel, you!

[sadie]

Photos from year 1.

It's only a 5 rod plot & I've no chance of another one, even tho' there are loads which aren't kept up.



The council here are a joke...



Oh dear, I can only do 3 at a time. More posts to follow.

[sadie]

The (free but very small) greenhouse is now glazed & full of seedlings.

Some areas are still not properly dug over as building the fruit cage & planting trees took priority.

The pile of rescued timber/pallets needs to get used up so I can dig that bit. I'll probably plant spuds underneath it this year...

I did well all in all tho', considering many things were just 'chucked in' so that I had something going on.

[Jared]

Julie,
That looks amazing, it's the kind of thing I have vaguely in the back of my mind for when I finish clearing back all the brambles and dead wood on my new plot.
What size are your raised beds? I have been trying to work out what size I should be planning on that will still let me plant and weed the whole bed easily, and what depth I should be planning as well.
(link to my photos in my sig, so much to do before it looks anywhere near as pretty as yours)

[JulieSherris]

Hi Jared,
Well, we designed the beds according to the size of the wood up the yard

So, our beds are 16ft long, 4ft wide & 9ins deep.
Andy made them 4 ft wide so I can reach across from either side without treading on the soil - keeps them nice & loamy then.
And we got the 9ins depth because the yard didn't have enough 7ins boards... although a 9ins depth also meant that I didn't have to dig the existing soil & grass underneath - let the worms do the work!

He pounded down some 2 x 2 stakes at each corner & some 2 x 1's along the length as well - to keep the boards fixed & stable.

Then the beds inside the polyhouse are again 16ft long, but just 2 ft wide - again, I won't have to walk on the soil - total superstar, my hubby - but don't tell him I said....

[Millymollymandy]

All so neat and tidy and mine is just a mass of weeds, self seeded coriander and flowering PS brocolli right now.

[fruitcake]

My wee attempts....

Constructing the raised beds




the left overs from constructing the raised bed




The orchard




The previous attempt - now my nursery and abandoned soft fruit




Parsley the lion and co




Screening the oil tank