December is a great month to finish tidying, tackle repairs to structures and generally plan and look forward to the coming growing season!
- Spread a thick layer of well-rotted manure or fresh compost on empty beds – feed your soil!
- Harvest Brussels sprouts from the bottom up
- Winter is a good time to clean tools and organise the greenhouse
- Harvest parsnips after a hard frost, they’ll be sweeter for it
- Apply a mulch around rhubarb crowns of well-rotted manure or compost, they’re hungry plants
- Plant garlic if you can work the soil, otherwise use small pots and plant out once rooted
- Mulch dahlia tubers if you plan to leave them in the ground
- Put your feet up and drool at seed catalogues, plan your veg planting for next year.
Published by Allotment Haven
Step inside the world of allotments, where people grow vegetables on rented parcels of land and drink tea in their characterful sheds. From times of hardship during wartime famine to present day, allotments are great places to connect with the land and each one has its own identity and gardening style.
I’ve had an allotment since 2011 and grow food using the ‘no dig’ approach to gardening. I'm passionate about the fascinating wildlife I share my allotment with and strive to garden with them in mind, creating habitats and encouraging natural predators to help keep my allotment productive.
The aim of this blog is to document the growing year on my allotments, share the ups and downs of allotment life and hopefully inspire others to get an allotment too!
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At this time of year my plot visits tend to be shorter than usual and I tend to potter, or if it’s cold dig out and sieve a barrowful of compost to keep warm. xx
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Me too Flighty, a great way to keep the soil happy and keep warm doing so x
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