Welcome to my Allotment garden.

I have had this garden for the 4th year and last year, I cropped about 300 Lbs (160 Kgs) of potatoes from it. They were stored in the cool garden shed in paper sacks after they were washed and dried in the sun. The early crop was Sharps Express and the main crop were Desire.

The onion crop was also very handsome of 200 in all, main onions were Bulldog and the others were Red Baron. Shallots were also bountiful, as they are again this year. All the onions and shallots keep well in the cool and dark shed after having been tied into strings and hung on nails.

Other crops were fruit, sweetcorn, cabbage, beetroot and climbing French Beans (Cobra) and this year I am also trying Sultana.

Indoors in the greenhouse there are 3 tomato varieties. Cerise, Moneymaker and Shirley. Cucumbers are the ordinary long green ones and one the size and shape of a tennis ball called Crystal Apple. They don't repeat on you like the green ones.

Here are some shots of the garden from different angles and as it is only the begining of June, there is a lot of growing to be done before we start reaping our rewards.

The most prevalent weed on these allotment gardens is Marestail or horsestail which can be seen below. I know of no weed killer which will destroy it and it seems that the only way of keeping it at bay is to dig, and dig deeply as the black root are a menace. Break up a piece of root and more grows. Therefore, by using a cultivator on the ground increases the number of them by cutting up the roots further.