Strawberry

Allotment | Digging has begun

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 | Allotment, Environment, Money Saving | No Comments

Along with my little helper the digging has begun!

The little helper

I’ve decided to dig it over bit by bit and plant as I go,. I think this year it will be a case of just getting stuff in the ground, and the I can start planning properly what I want to grow where. the first bit will be for the potatoes.

The first section

There are quite a few weeds growing, clumps of grass etc.. but it all seems to be pretty free and easy to pull up.  The strawberry’s need a weed and today I weeded around the raspberries and pruned off the dead wood.

Raspberries and Strawberries

For some reason the Raspberries seem to have been planted down one side of the allotment. This isn’t really very good, so I am planning on moving them so that they go across the allotment. I also have some Raspberries in the garden that I will be planning on moving over. I need to read up on the best time to do this, which I assume will be winter when the canes are dormant.

To the right of that picture are the strawberries and again they go down the plot rather than across, I have left them in place this year, but in winter I will move them so that they too go across the plot. My plan is to have three rows, due to strawberries having a productive life span of three years, which I can rotate and replace the old plants with the new runners.

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Strawberries! Thank you freecycle

Monday, March 16th, 2009 | Environment, Gardening, Life, Money Saving | No Comments

Tonight on my way home from work I picked up two small carrier bags of strawberry plants that were offered on my local Freecycle… Two small carriers but boy were there lots of strawberries in there!

So in almost darkness I set about splitting and potting them up, several in a large pot and some in singles in small pots. I ran out of compost with still a dozen more to plant.. currently not sure how would be best t o keep them until i can get more compost, I don’t want them drying out and going to waste!

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