{"id":327,"date":"2012-05-11T20:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/?p=327"},"modified":"2024-01-23T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T13:16:21","slug":"how-not-to-look-after-your-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/on-the-plot\/how-not-to-look-after-your-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to look after your plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today finally I had a little bit of time and the weather was okay too so did a bit of gardening. When you have to travel to get to your allotment it is not always easy to manage your plot. Going to work, get back home and then make dinner and spend some time with the kids hmm\u00a0 when to garden?! How do you manage your time in the allotment?<\/p>\n<p>If you garden at home of course it is much easier, I think anyway I have never tried that way. First time this year I am planning to have some herbs in the small garden that is all.<\/p>\n<p>I am a very bad time manager, and too busy with hmm I don&#8217;t really know what with but\u00a0definitely not sitting around watching\u00a0 footy and drinking beer lol&#8230;\u00a0 So believe it or not my greenhouse looked like this today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-in-may-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-328\" title=\"greenhouse in may\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-in-may--300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-in-may--300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-in-may--768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-in-may--150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-in-may--696x469.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-in-may-.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/oriental-veg-seeds\/67-cape-gooseberry-100-seeds.html\">cape gooseberry<\/a> debris and some weeds, and all around the greenhouse weeds and weeds and more weeds. I tackled the problem and removed the rubbish and the tired soil and replaced it with new compost. Planted some peppers into their final position, to be honest they have been in the greenhouse for about three weeks now. I always start the peppers indoors quite early around middle of February. This year I decided not to grow Jalapeno, I do like it but it does not have too much heat and wanted to give more room to the habaneros.\u00a0 I also managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/tomato-growing\/repot-tomato-seedlings\/\">repot the tomatoes<\/a>. I started them middle of March in the conservatory. They were desperate for bigger pots and more room now, so I moved them to the greenhouse straight away without hardening off. I found that tomatoes are quite hardy in the sense that after they reach a certain size you cannot really kill them, so I think they will be just fine even in the next few very cold nights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-may2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-329\" title=\"greenhouse may2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seedparade.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greenhouse-may2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks better doesn&#8217;t it?!<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I will cut the grass and dig, dig and dig. It is so amazing what you can achieve in 2 days if the weather is nice and you really just go for it. Come on weeds I am up for an other fight this year! Oh gardening isn&#8217;t it beautiful ==&gt;&gt; keeps you fit and in the end you will eat (hopefully) the tastiest and healthiest fruits and veggies ever! Go out there this weekend, the weather forecast seems good, and sort your gardens and plots out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today finally I had a little bit of time and the weather was okay too so did a bit of gardening. When you have to travel to get to your allotment it is not always easy to manage your plot. 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