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Allotment36 Sprowston

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:58pm
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Mike Ellard

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Nothing to do in Winter, Well

The veg garden all root crops except parsnips as these improve with frost to start the sugar process but the rest needs lifting and storing

Check produce in store especially potatoes remove anything going off, Onions can be realy tricky as storage areas are not cold and you can find onions starting growing again.

Start clearing your compost heaps to put on the garden this makes way for all the summer debris from your crops that have come to an end clean and tie up canes and stakes which have been used through the season, How about collecting fallen leaves and putting them into a black plastic bag to rot down makes a good additive to your compost as a growing medium.

Remove the lower leaves on sprouts aphids have been a real problem on sprouts this year and hard to control as they get into the sprout for protection

Dig all vacant ground try to cover ground with membrane or green mulch to dig in a new trend is co to sow green mulch under your beans to mature when you start cutting the foilage away on the beans, so the green mulch is already established.

Still hankering on the sowing, Broad Beans and peas a hardy type like Douce Provaence or Meteor are still good contenders outside. Garlic. Onions can be sown or grown as plant sets. Sow winter lettuce winter gem and winter density

Fruit trees put up grease bands and dont forget the tree stake as well its not much point just doing the tree as they can bypass the tree by climbing up the stake.

All soft fruit . Bush fruit can be planted now from containers or bare root plants which is the more economic way of buying Why not try blueberries in large pots with ericaceous compost they are around when all other berries have finished give them a go, as they are mostly imported, flown into the country in little plastic boxes.

Complete all spring bulb planting this month.

Hard wood cuttings can be taken now pencil length and pencil thick make a clean cut imediately below a bud and a sloping cut at the top plunge half the length in compost or trench in open ground , Vines, Cornus, Willow, Buddleia and fig will root by the Spring.

Cut back Herbaceous plants also reduce growth on roses to stop soil rock

Check over mowers and tools so they are in good shape for spring.

On your evening in your Coffee grounds are best put in the compost heap but there is no proof they eradicate slugs.


Micheal Ellard


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