To Autumn Plant or not...

Apart from Garlic and Onion sets, I have never been one for planting much in the autumn.

At my previous house, the raised beds were always already populated with things to pick nearly up until christmas, and the plot at Fencott regularly flooded in the winter so autumn planting really wasn't an option.

Preparing for Winter

Now that the summer is finally over (booo!) it is time to plan for next year. As in the past I am using the Suttons Garden Planner to get my outline plan. I eventually got around to measuring the allotment accurately and discovered that it is 5.5m wide by 17m long, so I put those dimensions in to the garden planner and came up with my plan for next year:

2016 plan

Paving slabs, garlic and a bumper harvest

I have been scouring the local freecycle and freegle groups for weeks now on the lookout for anything that I could use at the allotment, and recently I put up a wanted ad for paving slabs. I had just about given up waiting for a response when out of the blue I had an email with a phone number saying 'I have paving slabs - give me a call.' So I did, and I am now the happy recipient of 12.5 60cmx60cmx5cm paving slabs.