Allotment

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

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Bigger pots mostly populated a couple of days ago.
I finished filling the other ones (on the right) just now.
Seed trays in the foreground are this year's main crop, just planted.
I get animals roaming my property and trampling, and ants eat seeds, so I find getting them started and transplanting solves both problems.

This is my first go with big pots for growing to full size, so advice appreciated.
I have mixed good topsoil from my own lot with peat moss and compost, about 80%/10%/10%.
This is a bit less additives than recommended, but I have excellent topsoil.
I have a range of varieties across a range of pot sizes, as I cannot find any definitive advice on pot sizes for cherry tomatoes, or smaller peppers.
Nor do I know how much produce one loses for going a size smaller.
So, I hope to find out both this year.

This year's Spring is forecast to be quite short, so I will leave building the trolley thingie PHXPhlyer suggested till next year, when I will have decided exactly what size pots to use, and so will know exactly what size to build it.
In the meantime, I will get a lot of exercise!

[Ex-Ascot]

Gosh this thread has seem to have died. No OM15 or Fox3 anymore and we have had no water for two growing seasons now. It has just started the rainy season with vengeance. We are digging up the dried lagoon bed full of all sorts of droppings and putting it 1cm deep over all the beds. Going to plant some rape. We will not water it from the borehole but just use rain and see how it goes. The borehole water is killing half the estate.

[Hydromet]

The self-sown potato in the vege garden has started to die off, so I bandicooted thre small potatoes and put the vine in the compost bin this afternoon. I should get some seed potatoes as we eat quite a few.
Getting lots off cherry tomatoes of two self-sown vines, and lots of lettuce, just in time for summer salads and sang choi bow.

[Ex-Ascot]

He is putting as much of the dried lagoon bed onto the estate as I can force him to do. Fantastically fertile rich dark soil. If I could ship this to the UK I could make a fortune.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I shall start posting about my patch again.
Looks like everything is about 3 weeks early this year.
All the ice is gone from the Gulf already, and the Canada geese are back, on their way north.
I have all my cool crop seedlings spouting now, and have just completed the foundations on two new 8'x4' raised beds. They should be complete in 2 weeks.
I'll also be doing irrigation this year, as I think it'll be a dry one. Pics soon.
Pleased to report I am still eating my own peppers from the freezer, so I'll plant that many again.

[tango15]

My name is down for an allotment at the new place, which is just a short walk from the house. I've never had an allotment before, but I fancy growing my own veg, and the way things are going, it might be a good idea! The new house has a large garden, mainly planted to lawn and bushes, so there's no room there for veggies, but I've grown them before when I've had a suitable garden.