Category Archive: tubs

April 3rd, 2013
post by Timber-Gray | | 0

Stealing of my allotment supplies!

  As you’ve seen and heard I keep my carrots growing in bathtubs, fiberglass ones with holes and minging bottoms. Well some brain decided to steal all FOUR of the tubs I’ve been given! I swear it pisses me off to keep having things stolen from the allotment, I can’t have anything nice there because they steal things so quickly! Last year I had an early and late crop of carrots, but they sole and entire tub of my late carrots over 50 of them!! And a lot were going to my landlord’s children’s cavies,nothing big just helping them as they help us. But to steal an entire lot of carrots??? So plans are limited to what we keep there and now I have to ask my mate again for some tubs for the carrots in hopes that I can get them growing again because we love the carrots and there’s so many to pick from!

 Last year they stole our tiller, we had saved up for a cheap one but still the same they stole it! I swear I hate being there at times but know all the hard work we’ve put into it that I wouldn’t move for the life of me! We suffered through glass, brambles, theft, and foxes! But it’s our allotment and something we’ve put hard work into and something we’ll continue to do because we love it so! Even in the dirt to plant things I enjoy things there and can’t wait for the summer to be crawling again. I don’t get far and I may not do much but I love the allotment and we’ll keep going and keep battling to have our things.

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June 20th, 2012
post by Timber-Gray | | 0

What’s been happening lately…

So far the food that’s survived the mice and that I grew at home, we now have some corn, some type of squash, continual spinach, cabbage, flowering purple broccoli, brussel sprouts, tomatoes and popping corncobs.

Most of it is growing, sadly the snails and slugs got to a few plants and ate them whole! This being through egg shells and under containers so they all got fed to the princesses for their nasty deed! Luckily most is growing back and I hope now there are more egg shells and slug and snail repellent is down we’ll be in better shape.  Hopefully everything will grow and we’ll be able to feed the hens aka the princesses and ourselves.

We had planted a large four separate patches of potatoes. We dug up a test patch from our first in and nothing was on the plant, sadly we’re afraid that all our first main crop may have nothing on them as they lived through the rain and hot weather so blight may have gotten the field. We have the other plots of potatoes, we won’t dig any test plants up in them as there aren’t many of them so we can always hope there are potatoes on the plants in the main first crop later into the season.

A friendly man and his wife offered us some plants, flowering purple broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, and tomatoes. We planted a ton of everything in my flower bed since it was the only free bed since the tiller was stolen. So I lost my gardening area and flowers but hopefully it’ll all grow and thrive with lucky and growing care.

Yes, someone broken into our shed and stole our tiller, sadly that means digging plots by hand and Simon sore and his back highly aggravated.  But our next one will be a 5 stroke and taken with us daily if we get one as we’ll be having the whole lot tilled by a neighbour’s mate, so we’ll till it though out the winter minus the apple trees, but hopefully dig up the strawberries for a few more years out of them. so it’s plow the field, rake, plow, rake, and continue all winter this way until we feel all weeds are dug up.

I’ve replanted more carrots in one of the tubs that just wasn’t growing, no idea what kind but I tossed them in and with hope they’ll be winter carrots. I have a medium box full of carrots and a tub full, but more spare seeds for winter carrots for the third tub that’s about half growing, so they may be winter carrots as well with the ones I plant in soon as I’m feeling better.

Currently I’m down, very poorly and not making it to the allotment, but on the plus side I have a nice tan :)

 

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May 28th, 2012
post by Timber-Gray | | 0

What Have We Planted Lately??

Now that the winter and rain has passed we are getting our plants in the ground that I have been working on in the greenhouse, that was until I found out I had little visitors who were hungry, MICE! They knocked over a few of my seedling trays and ate the seeds from within my corn, butternut squash and spaghetti squash! Not what I wanted to see as after this they went after the seeds in the greenhouse, eating my sweet corn, spaghetti squash, butternut squash and they tried the brussel sprouts but didn’t like them.

So after scavenging thru the toppled seedling trays for some seeds, I was able to salvage about 15 squash seeds, some sweet corn seeds, but that is all. So I replanted what I saved and what I could find left over, but this time I brought all the seedling trays home to go in one of our greenhouses. At home I just have to worry about Keagan and Baxter but they didn’t seem to care about them luckily.

After about four weeks or so I had some large sprouts growing and knew I had beaten the mice this time!

In total we have a lot of new plants recently, we bought a few tomato plants from the Society’s but sadly they died over night once they were planted, even with newspaper at the root ball for moisture. Out of three plants two died and a dark red tomato plant surrived.

The saved plants are some squash, no idea what kinds but I know five sprouted. After that comes three sweet corn  sprouts, sadly I wish more had sprouted but no more did, but luckily I think I have some more seeds that’ll be sowing into my greenhouse again.

We also planted some strawberry corn. Weird sounding I know but it sounds great on the package! What you do is dry it out and then put in airtight container, and after two months you put them in the microwave, and then eat the popcorn off the cob and what has fallen off the cob. There are about nine of these plants and they’ll be cared for very well, trust us on that one!

And next to last we planted continuing growing spinach, this just keeps growing throughout the year. This is another plant that we’ll be keeping an eye on with the luck of Popeye, we’ll have lots and lots of spinach all the year long and into winter.

Finally we have about 25 brussel sprouts growing for the girls and our landlords, since neither of us eat the sprouts. But it’s amazing how many grew have grown in the greenhouse. I just hope most take and grow because the girls love them!

That’s all the newest plants we have, we’re still growing the potatoes, strawberries, rhubarb, onions, garlic, bathtub carrots and a beautiful Golden Delicious Apple tree. There are also two berry bushes growing nicely, we just hope berries are growing on the bushes so we know what we have.

That’s our allotment at the moment, enjoy reading about our continuing adventures as our 2nd year as allotment owners now with chickens!!

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July 18th, 2011
post by Simon | | 0

>Carrots in tubs!

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Two different and nice views of our carrots they’re growing like crazy and I have thinned out some carrots so all sizes will be in the tub from small to large! Next year I’ll hopefully have more colours and sizes all over more tubs!
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June 19th, 2011
post by Simon | | 0

>Recent crops

>First tub holds carrot seeds filled!!
Next tub holds a bunch of fresh herbs from chives to mint chocolate herbs which not only smells delicious but is great in vanilla cake!!
Then we have our first tomato!!! Small but we have now over eight huge tomato plants so something is bound to grow!!
And tonight we had a great small salad from our own lettuce!! I can’t wait until we can pick more in huge amounts.


Posted by Timber through Simon’s account.

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