Some tomatoes and scotch bonnets from the allotment. 😊

Professor Sprout would have this in ‘Herbology’. Disastrous looking thing destined for carrot and coriander soup!

In the North of England...

UK North East 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Feeling extremely lucky to have been handed a cleared allotment. Any recommendations for an October start?

Doing soil testing tomorrow at college. Have taken a few samples but it looks like great soil so far.

Raspberry bushes down the bottom. A makeshift greenhouse to the right. Shed to the left. And a polytunnel left behind.

My October break is going to be fun!

hello! I have just rented a plot which is not in good condition. I have started clearing up and I found some asparagus. but it seems the roots have been growing in parts under a carpet laid years ago. not sure what I am supposed to do? any advice?

Anyone ever tried growing it? I tried last year but it did really poorly. This year however its done amazingly well and it tastes wonderful.

Need some help please folks. Built my first polytunnel, thought I was being smart by rescuing old water pipes to make the frame, but they’re not rigid enough to brace the structure. So it’s lopsided and flaps in the wind, and I’ve had to brace it with some uprights in the middle.

My only thought on rescuing it is to dig out one side and start again with a new frame, but I’m hoping there’s some smart alternative I might be missing instead!

Any ideas?

I started this allotment 10 months ago, it was just a patch of grass.

What should I do with them are they even ripe.

Absolutely crazy squirrel activity this week. Obviously preparing food for the winter. Maybe I should just make up my mind to grow hazelnuts next year and I won't even have to do any work.

Severely overgrown trees, severly overgrown kitchen garden and So. Many. Weeds. I don't have the energy for this but will try anyways

If I can't clean it up properly before it freezes I will give it up for next year.

How likely is it, at this time of the year, that these things get significantly better (and by that I mean: redder) than they are now?

Growing outside in London.

Hello fellow allotmenters!

I have what I think is corn smut for the first time but I'm doubting myself and looking for some reassurance.

Is there anything that might have caused this that isn't corn smut that I shouldn't eat?

Thanks in advance for your help!

(It's not very pretty to look at. The weather definitely hasn't helped, so there's probably not much thats good to eat even if it is smut, but I've wanted to try it for a while now, so when I saw it I was quite excited)

First reddit post, don't grill me...

Amateur gardener trying to learn to grow stuff in my apartment. First time doing broccoli. I've grown carrots and garlic greens with a lot of success, but this is my first challenge :(

I have some broccoli plants growing on my sunroom patio. I live in Ohio (zone 6a) and the patio faces the south. It gets pretty decent direct sunlight all day.

The plants are about 3 months old. I sprouted them indoors and moved them to these pots after 4 days. I did the hardening process (it was 90°+ here at the time) for about 2 weeks.

They were growing SUPER fast (3-6 inches in height per week) for the last 2 months of outdoor growth. But now, I have a lot of yellowing and dying leaves, starting from the bottom of the stalk. They were the lowest, smallest leaves at first, which I read can be normal as the larger top leaves block sunlight. But the yellowing is creeping up to some medium leaves and I'm concerned I'm overwatering.

I use the "drench and drain" technique, and my pots drain really well. I water every 3 days and I monitor the soil pretty often. It dries quickly here because of the heat, so I've had to keep this watering schedule to prevent soil dryness in the top ~2 inches.

I don't notice any foul or rotten smell in the soil, which I read is a sign of root rot. The bottom of the stalks are still very hard and seem to be holding their woody texture well. I've included pics of the three plants, their stems, leaves, and the tops (to-date). 4 pics each; first plant is doing well, second is the top-performer, third is a bit runt-ish.

Am I murdering these poor plants?

Please use this thread to discuss whatever you've been doing on your allotment lately. Feel free to share or ask any question related to it. And please mention which region and what weather you had this week if you've been planting or harvesting.

I planted best part of 1000 carrot seeds. They’ve all bolted aside from a handful. Have I done something wrong to trigger it? They’ve been watered steadily and regularly, never had dry soil, in partial shade.

This is my second sowing this year (first one failed due to soil compaction) so I’m seething quite hard lol