Grow Your Own Magazine

Spent two hours on the allotment this morning just doing odd jobs that have been waiting to be done. As usual ended up not having much time to sow more seeds, so just quickly put in two short rows of spring onion seeds and hope they will be ok. where i planted them.

I am tempted to move the rhubarb, well three of the crowns that are not doing well. I need the area they are in and have almost cleared the area I want to move them to; I know I should wait for the Autumn but I am wondering...

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Wish they had let me have my plot last Autumn then I might have cleared more of it before the grass, weeds, and brambles took off this Spring.

The part of the plot I've managed to clear is doing quite well with two lots of potatoes growing, shallotts, peas, beans, salad and a few carrots but the uncleared part is having a ' field day'. Each time I visit which is not as often as I'd like to or need to I make sure I start by hoeing with a hand hoe or dutch hoe the part that is planted...

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