The growing season has well and truly started and Plot 15C is nearly already full to the brim. Although to be fair the vegetable beds are so small it’s hard for them not to fill up so quick!
The Swiss chard from last year is still producing those beautifully coloured and delicious leaves, the garlic is growing well and the broad beans have flowers. The potatoes have also been planted and the carrots have been sown too. There’s also a trough full will tulips in bloom and I planted some perrenials in the flower patch (Hollyhock, Fox-glove, Delphinium and Verbena) aswell as a new evergreen grass called Carex down in the pond area. Both the climbing rose and the rose shrub are looking healthy against the side of the shed and I can’t wait for them to bloom this year.
The raspberries are sprouting up like crazy and the 2 gooseberry bushes and 4 blackcurrant bushes all have great thick foliage and has even produced some little flowers. The manure I put on the two strawberry raised beds must have done them some good because the foliage is looking so green and lush and I’ve noticed a few flowers on the plants too. And to top it all off the grapevine I purchused and planted back in February has a few buds growing!
Even though the plot is coming together nicely there are a few large jobs to be done including finishing and netting the walk in fruit cage, building a walk in chicken run and finishing the coop as well as making the pond more wildlife friendly. And I’m sure those pesky weeds will be growing like crazy soon enough!
7 thoughts on “Plot 15C Update”
Hi Katie, I’ve only recently discovered you after a fluey thing which kept me in bed a couple of days and sent me searching for something to pass the time. Thank you for the videos, photos etc. - I’veso enjoyed them. You are a much younger version if myself. I have had an allotment for a year now, I have chickens at home and work in a knitting/patchwork/sewing shop. I just need the shed!! The chickens are easier than you think. After a couple if weeks you’ll feel like an old hand!! Happy to share knowledge if required. Looking forward to continued updates etc. Best wishes Steph.
I love reading your allotment posts. I live my allotment dreams through you 🙂
Your strawberry plants sure are looking fine and neat and I’m impressed to see that your broadbeens already are flowering. I guess spring is about a month later in the mittle of Sweden compared with southern England. When did the Forsythia bloom at your Place? Here it’s in full bloom!
Speaking of the fruit Cage I have noticed that you have covered the ground with dark plastic in order to kill the weeds. I just want to let you know that I have had a lot of troubble with the same material in my garden. After some years it have breaken down into tiny. tiny bits impossible to pick upp. Ofcours we have a lot of frost here during the Winter so you might not get the same problem.
I love your photos!!! What are those black and white flowers? They are so pretty! I want to do a Moonlight garden (a la Monty) and I love the black and white together!
That’s so exciting that your little plot is doing so well! I really need to get a move on with my little patch in our garden - I still have so much to plant out and sow! I’m so glad that you decided to go ahead with the chickens! We have a couple free range bantams in our back garden and they’re so interesting to watch and so easy to look after - and they always come over to ‘help’ me garden haha!
xo April
Great update on your plot Katie, it’s always nice at this time of year when everything starts to put lots of growth on. Your strawberries look very good, I hope you have a nice crop.
Happy gardening!
Fantastic blog Katie, I’m a relatively new gardener and am just busying myself with a small patch of spuds and cauliflowers at the bottom of my garden. A quick question, what’s the best kind of compost to use for growing veg? I’ve heard a lot of good things about mushroom compost, or does it really matter?
Thanks!