We hope this will be a growing section as members send us their own gardening tips (and corrections to our tips!). We are looking for ideas that people have tried and that really work for gardeners here. There is a list of fruit and vegetable varieties that work well here, as well as some that don’t.
- Good Varieties for Hollin Lane Here are some vegetable varieties that do well here. Please give us your own favourites with a few words saying why you like them.
- Not So Good Varieties for Hollin Lane Some fruit and vegetable varieties just don’t work here. Please give us your own experience with a few words about what the problem was.
- Borlotti Beans I struggle to find things that work on my plot, but French beans and recently, Borlotti beans are my favourite…
- Rats, Squirrels Eating Sweet Corn I noticed about that squirrels (probably) were starting to eat my ripening sweetcorn …
- Potato Blight Some time in August, especially when the weather is warm and damp, our potatoes plants start showing signs of blight.
- Peat Free Composts A report by Rosie Hall for Hollin Lane Allotment Association
- Making Compost Here are the slides from the talk on Making Compost from the 2011 AGM.
- Pea and Bean Weevil The pea and bean weevil is hard to spot, but its damage to peas and beans is easy to see …
- Make Your Own Seed and Potting Compost Make your own seed and potting composts …
- Compost Heaps Gillian North’s recipe for success!
- Potatoes Extend the season for earlies and avoid blight on maincrops…
- Sowing Seeds Gillian’s ‘three for one’ planting tip…
- Onion Sets Gillian’s tip for getting the most from your onions and garlic.
- Eating Nasturtiums Yes, really!
- Slug Slime on Fingers Next time you get slug slime on your fingers try this…
- Disposing of Weeds Even couch grass and bindweed roots can be composted if you know how.