Allotment - Third year in now... and looking good.

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Allotment - Third year in now... and looking good.

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Hard to believe that its year 3 now (well second proper full year on allotments). Yr2 I invested in a Mantis Tiller and Year 1 was the caravan [shed]. Yr3 has been the most expensive for me:

New Beds gone,in, brand new chicken coop/run and alot of "hard" work going in...

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Hoping for the bumper crops come harvesting and lots of thinking what to do with it all :lol: :lol:

Considring I can't get a smallholding or the river cottage dream - this is the next best thing for me :thumbright:

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Post: # 227239Post Millymollymandy »

Wow it all looks fabulous :cheers: and you must have worked really hard. Now all you have to do is the easy bit of growing! :wink: :iconbiggrin: :flower:
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Post: # 227246Post Green Aura »

That looks amazing! :cheers:
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Post: # 227249Post bonniethomas06 »

WOWEE! Well done, that is the best looking allotment I have ever seen! And well done you for taking time to build solid foundations so that managing it will be so much easier in future.

AND.. good for you for having chickens on an allotment...in such a lovely coop.

Good luck with it.
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Post: # 227313Post fruitcake »

Wow, looks fantastic - I think I managed to count 15 raised beds, really like the wee mini greenhouse / cloche /cold frame you've got on one of them!
I'm into year 4 of my garden this year so hoping it really starts to take off too.

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fruitcake wrote:Wow, looks fantastic - I think I managed to count 15 raised beds, really like the wee mini greenhouse / cloche /cold frame you've got on one of them!
I'm into year 4 of my garden this year so hoping it really starts to take off too.
lol - it came to 23 beds in all now its done. Have planted out my spuds and garlic today (also moved the rubarb into a bed too)

The thing on the right is in fact the cage/run of the chicken hut that I placed onto of the bed. See its all planned out just right. The brown chook (in the middle) hut sits of top of this cage and volia mini run before I built their new "enclosure".

But as its been in my head all the time, the cage fits perfect over a bed half way, so I will knock up the remaining part of the cage so it sits over 1 bed perfectly. This will mean I have total control of the chooks in the "weeding and turning" over dept without them causing chaos to the whole plot :lol: :lol: :pirate:

Now time to crack on with the Mantis and rip the ground to peices and sort it all out and get them onions in soon :study:

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Post: # 227416Post growingthings »

Your raised bed system is just like the one I'm doing at my allotment, although I will be the first to admit that mines not going to look anywhere as neat!

Great job, and well done you.

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Post: # 227458Post eco-mick »

hehe.. thanks :)

Today for about an hour we (uncle popped down) decided to sink a "hole" down into one of the beds (one nearest to the coop) to find water so I can install a waterbutt well in. As where these plots are we have no running water at all and 3/4 weeks of no rain the ground is dry.

Anyhow - 4'x4' square trench went in (dug out a lovely chunk of "old" bone :shock: ) finally 5-6 feet down hitting white/grey sand bits I have "water" :king:

Left it as that, will check it tomorrow to see how far its come up - then will tidy it up and sink the butts in for walls :cheers:

No flowers please tomorrow when it all gets sorted lol

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