tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35566115.post8509940151720930192..comments2023-10-26T16:51:31.089+01:00Comments on The Dobby's Pumpkin Patch - An Allotment and Beekeeping Blog!: Hothouse disaster averted, Queen Marking, allotment judging, community orchard and some great news!Mrs Dobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100130627184947910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35566115.post-19687109296619766302010-07-22T10:34:56.143+01:002010-07-22T10:34:56.143+01:00Thanks IG, apart from a few flowers and the fruit ...Thanks IG, apart from a few flowers and the fruit trees, the rest of it has been grown from seed, set or tuber, so very little cost involved (except in time involved!)<br /><br />We thought at first that our back yard would be big enough for what we wanted to grow.... it wasnt! Then we thought a single plot would fulfill our needs...... nope! So then we took aa additional half plot (at the other side of the site)......... still not enough room! So when the full plot next to us became free, we took that and gave up the half plot, and we can just about squeeze everything in there now (apart from some overspill that goes in the back yard, including this year 12 toms and 9 peppers in the greenhouse, 3 blueberries, 2 apple trees, a cherry tree and about 90 strabwerry plants, plus about 75 tomatoes that we have extra (we didnt expect 100% germination) that went in very early to the back yard borders outside. These have all survived - to our amazement - and are floweing and fruiting up nicely!)<br /><br />Mind you, we only had the chance to take multiple plots because at that time there were vacant plots all over the site, so we were asked to take a 2nd one. Nowadays there's a waiting list, so its not as easy for folks to expand anymore!Mrs Dobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03100130627184947910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35566115.post-83568286296381872552010-07-22T10:01:29.854+01:002010-07-22T10:01:29.854+01:00There's some good looking stuff going on there...There's some good looking stuff going on there. I wish I had more space because I now have the need for some many additional crops!The Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18345021580985320660noreply@blogger.com