Hi all been awhile since the last post but just to let you know I'm still here I've not packed up the Lottie life or neglected the Lottie every thing is still fine and dandy cant get any better.Oh apart from those carrots what i had sown a few motnhs ago when i first started (That will be down to not thinning out) so they all look like little twisted orange spaggetti so i have recently sown some more Early nantes just a couple of seeds per moduel this time and not 50 :) oh yes and some seedings what i bought what where labled SPROUTS and its turned out there CAULIS must be as clever as me the person who sown them :)
So i will let you have a look at the blog and some recently updated photos in the My pics link until the next time bye for now ..........Hope your all doing as well as i think i'm doing.
Lee

Vegetable & Fruit List

What We've Got Up To Now On The Lottie
Onion, Sturon x 22,Stutgarter giant x 22,Red baron x 22,Bedfordshire champion x 34
Potato, Pentland javelin x 27
Broccoli, Green calabrese x 12
Sprouts x 5
Peas,early onwards x 8
Broad beans x 6
Radish,Scarlet globe
Tomato's,Marmande x4,Gardener delight x 4,Money maker x 4 (Not going in fruit section)
Cauliflower, Flower of spring x 18
Carrots,Nantes
Cabbage,All year round x 14
Beetroot,Boltardy
Courgette,black beauty x 6 (sown 21/5/08)
sweetcorn,Swift x 6 (sown 21/5/08
Lettuce, All year round (sown 21/5/08
Pumpkin,hundredweight (sown 21/5/08......Many more to come
Fruit...
Strawberry's,raspberry's,gooseberry's,apple,cherry,redcurrant,rhubarb,blackcurrant
Herbs...
Bay
Sage
Dill
Mint
Parsley
Rosemary
Basil
Sweet cicely
Thyme

The bed before

The bed after i spend hours sieving it

The new beds Sprouts on the far left and broccoli on the right

Strawberry bed after

Strawberry bed before

Its been a busy weekend on the Lottie, Since Thursday I've sown leeks(musselburgh) around 30seeds in a tray 3"deep and put them in the greenhouse hopefully am not to late with them.I've also made an extra 2 beds next to the sprout bed i recently made 1 of which I've put some broccoli seedlings in 10 in all.The neighbouring Lottie which Ive renamed plot2 has been under a big clearing & tidying up project over the weekend is looking better now I've tided up the strawberry bed dug up all the strawberry plants after identifying them beyond the weeds and replanted them in nice neat rows in some black Terran (Weed barrier) might not produce fruit this year now but be ready for next season. And I've also got the bed next to the strawberry's weed & stone free after sieving it for hours and to a nice tilth ready for something to go in.I've also corrected a mistake which i made with the cabbage :( i planted all 3 seedlings into the cabbage bed without THINNING out before hand so i had 5 rows of cabbage with 24 plant to a row bit much hey? so i decided to dig them up and thin them out but after i had done 1 row they looked like they where dieing.Oh NO......(but after 5 day looks like they are finding there feet again and starting to stand up) But i got some advice off some professional growers on http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/ Cracking website..And I had to take a pair of scissors to the 2weakest plants sacrifice or what:( But apart from that mishap everything else is
fine

Thursday 15th may 2008

Well since the last post I've been really quite busy on the Lottie.

In the last couple of weeks I've planted out some beets(Boltardy) which have started showing signs of germination up by the compost bin.Made a bed for the sprouts next to the pea frame .The cabbage,carrots & cauliflowers are doing well and the potatoes are doing great every things looking good and healthy.

I've transplanted out the parsnips which where in the G/H in to a bed on the neighbouring Lottie with some radish in between the rows also planted out the bedfordshire champion onions which i grew from seed in a bed next to the parsnips. Onions hope i can get rid of them i must have about 140 planted out Ha ha oh well ! went a bit mad with them lee..

Bottom to top cabbage,carrot & cauliflower, beets at the top next to the compost bin

And even got my little helper ! Good lad Jordan x

April 10th 2008

Hi visitors
Well I've not updated for a while now been really busy working and spending time on the Lottie looking after the upcoming crops.
So after still doing some clearing up everything is looking even better now I'm really chuffed with the Lottie and all my seedling are doing really well am enjoying the Lottie life. I've made a pea frame which the peas are taking quite well to as its only my first season TRYING to grow fruit&veg as a novice i think I'm doing well I've updated my Lottie pics (in the links) so you will see some of the changes and the first and second pictures of the seedlings

Thanks for your visit to the grosvenorstplot.....wish you all well Lee

December 2007-February 27th 2008

Hi
Well here's my first post just to tell you what this NOVICE allotmenteer what Ive been doing since i got the Lottie and what i plan on growing...
As you may be able to see from some of my pictures most of my time has gone into cleaning my Lottie up and the neighbouring Lottie on quite a big scale but I'm almost done now.I started on the Lottie in mid December clearing everything out all the IVY what had taken over removed all the weeds turned all the beds over painted the shed fixed the chain link fencing. Repaned the G/H on the neighbouring Lottie TODAY (Thanks to some glazers at work i acquired some old perspex on 25Feb from the train station shelter at work) everything's looking good now. I've planted some seeds in modules on the 23rd Feb.. Carrots (early Nantes) Parsnips ( White gem) Cabbage (Greyhound) peas(early onwards)Cauliflower Also some fruit .Rhubarb,blackberry,gooseberry,raspberry...... also some herbs Garlic coriander..parsley..mint...thyme.. Some tomatoes(moneymaker) in the greenhouse on the 17th Feb still no signs of germination yet though.I've got some growing at home in a propagator (gardeners delight,marmande,moneymaker..also some chilli's Cayenne,toro rosso ,worldbeater And i have some potatoes chilting in my shed which have been there since 3rd feb the shoots are about an inch or two now but i sprayed a few with water because i thought it might help but today i thrown them away because they went black :( i wont be doing that again)
Hopefully i will be able to post a lot more in time and show you my results but until then i will keep going enjoying my self
What i intend to grow(This year)
Potatoes,leeks,onions,parsnips,cabbage,carrots,beets,peas,caulis,sprouts,lettuce,radish,tomatos,chillis
rhubarb,blackcurrant,raspberry,strawberry's
garlic,chives,parsley,coriander,mint,thyme,dill

Thanks for your visit i will be back with more posts & pics Lee
(visit the link my pics to view the lottie)


If you can i would be very grateful of any tips or advise you can give me (These books & magazines make it complicated for novices)