Hobbit Allotment!

[Aberdeenplotter]

Crikey, I think I'd be looking for a different plot. My plots are on a steep slope, 1 in 8 in parts so I'm not usually bothered with standing water except at the very bottom against the retaining wall and where I have raised beds.

What is clear is that you have a major problem which you really cannot resolve yourself. On the assumption that the site is Council owned, get them to come in and have a look. A few hours with a JCB will do more than you could physically do in several months.

[horticultural_hobbit]

I didn't, my sweet. All the more reason in doing so in the future, eh, uncle Sno. I just don't like playing with wet clay.

[snohare]

My brain is female, it doesn't do spatial awareness

I thought it must be male, it does excuses very well !

I shall ponder on a way that you may find the gradient of your plot easily and without specialised surveying equipment (I don't suppose you have access to a theodolite, do you ? )

Meantime, remind me - did you ever dig a soakaway pit and fill it with stones ?

And fear not - alliums at least can survive submersion perfectly well ! "Chicago" means "swamp of the wild onions"...

[horticultural_hobbit]

Stream runs in parallel to the site. Think plot neighbour tried this but to no avail. Apparently my plot is on a higher incline, and water drains down and away. I disagree.
It doesn't drain in any direction!

Hard to describe. If you were stood by the water butt facing the Wendy house, the slope goes up on your left. The steam is behind you, behind the fence. And water will also drain towards you. So from you left, and straight at you. Apparently. I don't know! My brain is female, it doesn't do spatial awareness.

[snohare]

How difficult would it be to start digging an outlet to the nearby stream ? Is the stream downhill from the plot, would the water drain away ?

[horticultural_hobbit]

Nothing in the beds yet, just leaf mold. What is planted, shallots, garlic, onions and tulips, is all in the flat. Some of which is sending up green shoots. Not many, but a few. It will take Epic dry to wring the whole thing out.

[Bren In Pots]

HH it does look a sorry sight so no wonder you're feeling how you are. but like VC say your beds are holding up fine so not alls lost.

[horticultural_hobbit]

At least eighty per cent of the half plot is under water. Not just a couple of centimetres. But a few inches. Covers my wellingtons. I despair, really. So much is most likely written off.

[veggiechicken]

So sorry HH So much effort for so little thanks - ungrateful weather. Good thing you have your raised beds - they should have more chance of coping with the deluge.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Carnage

Am rather hacked off with the elements today.

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Not a happy hobbit at all. Perhaps I should start looking for fishies and froggies.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Planted out roses

Harry wheatcroft, silver jubilee, blue moon, pascalli, peace, double delight, Christian Dior, ruby wedding, lovers delight and Dutch gold.

They now dog leg the far left of the plot and could potentially form a nice enclosure. Did mulch around the base, and really don't want the clay to eat them. Very thorny things. Nice and easy to plug in.

[snohare]

the dingle brook that cuts through the Shire country park is right behind the fence.

Oh well, you can bank on it then.
My little leeklings on the windowsill are looking feisty, I think I will need to put them out next week. Cant do it this week, I am going to be too busy tidying up before AberdeenPlotter comes to visit...the place is a mess !
And I have yet to stick even one onion set or garlic clove in the ground, as I was reminded today when someone to whom I had recently demonstrated the art of garlic planting in a pot, proudly showed me the photo of her new baby garlic seedling !

[horticultural_hobbit]

Roses and leeks are looking at me still. Must sink them
Saturday.

[horticultural_hobbit]

So very true! I have yet to see the three eyed fishy. Only a matter of time; as the dingle brook that cuts through the Shire country park is right behind the fence.

[snohare]

Sounds like the makings of a good sci-fi movie...the Shire has been invaded by huge slime-excreting monsters, famine stalks the land and floods sweep even the most well anchored of minigreenhouses into the neighbouring beck, where three-eyed fish lurk amidst blue-glowing stones...
Oops, looks like I've been putting the wrong mushrooms in my dinner again...