What can myself grow in my garden? Need help please.

[wr.]

In Cardiff you have a most wonderful sustainable supply of manure. It is located in The Bay and called The Senedd. Loads and loads of shite come out of there every day. Ask for the manager, Carwyn. His is the very best quality followed by one of the "has beens", Alun I hate bloody farmers Davies.

 

[MalooqTariq]

Don't ask Malooq, just don't ask.

If it's been cropped before, the soil should all be there under the weeds. Clear the weeds, taking care not to remove any soil, chuck them in a green waste bin. Put some manure on top. It's full of soil nutrients. Dig it over a good spades depth and see what you've got.
As said before, ask neighbouring allotment holders what they have success with growing. They will know if they've been there a while. Not all crops like all soils.

Enjoy.

There is soil under the grass and weeds. Thanks for your help to remove the weeds and to put manure on top to give nutrients to the soil.

Could I grow all types of food on my garden area that has grass on the left and that requires more grass on the right? I had a look and there are stones there on the ground for the right and the ground looks hard.

Thanks

 

[MalooqTariq]

Next time you see a horse near your allotment, follow it home and ask if you can have its poo.
Most stables will be glad of someone to take it away!
If they've got a vacuum cleaner for the paddocks, that's excellent stuff to get hold of.
If it's possible to cut down, chop up, and dig in your weeds deep, (along with as much dung as you can get hold of) that's all good for the soil. So long as you haven't got twitch you won't be making the weed seed bank worse this time of year. (Ask another allotment holder if you've got twitch if you can't identify it yourself).
Glyphosate from a knapsack will be your friend too, to start with. Put it on early before you start cutting weeds down. The more green there is, the better it will get absorbed into the roots.

£13/year for all that sounds a bargain. And the best bit will be all the advice from your fellow allotment holders. So don't be shy about sharing your flask and packet of bourbons in your potting shed on a cold Sunday!!

I do not think by the looks of the good additional extras, the shed and green house that there is not a vaccum cleaner for paddocks and the allotment in consideration does not have a paddock. I will be looking at getting manure to give good nutrients to the soil. What is dung for please? I have not got hear of twitch and the secretary that I spoke to did not mention twitch. What is twitch please?

I hear after searching to find information Glyphosate, that Glyphosate is to remove grass and to take away broadleef plants, but Glphosate contains toxins and is harmful to the environment by affecting animals and so on.

 

[MalooqTariq]

Lamma and Alpacker poo is brilliant aswell,if you can lay hold of it ,leave it on the surface as a slow release fertilizer

Having taken a look online to buy Lamma and Alpacker poo, in my results there was not a single page that stocks Lamma and Alpacker to purchase. Can you please show where Lamma and Alpacker poo is available to buy please?

Why is Lamma and Alpacker poo as a fertilizer really good please?

Thanks for your help

 

[MalooqTariq]

In Cardiff you have a most wonderful sustainable supply of manure. It is located in The Bay and called The Senedd. Loads and loads of shite come out of there every day. Ask for the manager, Carwyn. His is the very best quality followed by one of the "has beens", Alun I hate bloody farmers Davies.

Yes, that is where I am thinking that manure is available to buy cheaply.

What do you mean by, "His is the very best quality followed by one of the "has beens"?

Thanks for your help.

 

[bovrill]

I hear after searching to find information Glyphosate, that Glyphosate is to remove grass and to take away broadleef plants, but Glphosate contains toxins and is harmful to the environment by affecting animals and so on.

Take no notice of those lentil weaving vegan sandal wearers on whatever right-on website you found. Round-up is a lot more environmentally friendly than weed seeds blowing round the allotment and cleavers choking your parsnips.

 

[bovrill]

What is twitch please?

It's a grass weed, that spreads by tiny bits of its roots growing when you spread them around.
Allotments are rife with it. Glyphosate has largely got on top of it in agriculture.

 

[bovrill]

I do not think that there is not a vaccum cleaner for paddocks and the allotment in consideration does not have a paddock. I will be looking at getting manure to give good nutrients to the soil. What is dung for please?

Dung is muck, is poo, is manure, is crap, is droppings, is guano, is paddock berets, is horse nuggets, etc.

I didn't expect your allotments to have a stables and paddocks, but there should be a stables nearby. Stables have horses.
Horses have poos.
Poo makes dung.
Dung makes good vegetables.

 

[bovrill]

And some stables have gert big hoovers to keep their paddocks clean, and that's where the dung for the dung connoisseur comes from!

 

[MalooqTariq]

Take no notice of those lentil weaving vegan sandal wearers on whatever right-on website you found. Round-up is a lot more environmentally friendly than weed seeds blowing round the allotment and cleavers choking your parsnips.

Okay, thanks for the new plant that I recognise can be a problem by growing that is cleavers.

What is round-up please?

Thanks for your help

 

[MalooqTariq]

It's a grass weed, that spreads by tiny bits of its roots growing when you spread them around.
Allotments are rife with it. Glyphosate has largely got on top of it in agriculture.

Thanks for explaining that twitch is a grass weed that uses its roots to grow more. Thanks for saying that Glyphosate removes twitch.

Do you use Glyphosate then please?

Thanks for your help

 

[MalooqTariq]

Dung is muck, is poo, is manure, is crap, is droppings, is guano, is paddock berets, is horse nuggets, etc.

I didn't expect your allotments to have a stables and paddocks, but there should be a stables nearby. Stables have horses.
Horses have poos.
Poo makes dung.
Dung makes good vegetables.

Where the allotments are is next to a college, that is right near the entrance for the town and thus there is no stables nearby.

Thanks for saying that the horses poo makes dung that allows vegetables to grow well.

Is manure still good enough to use over dung?
Do you use dung and manure?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Oat]

Round-up is a brand/product name for glyphosate. Glyphosate is a non selective herbicide that will kill any plant it touches. It will work best when the plant is actively growing, as it will be translocated in the plant down to the roots, and therefore kills the roots and stops any regrowth. If you sprayed it today, the chemical would work very slowly, but if you sprayed it in a months time (when temperatures are higher and plants are growing more) it would work much quicker. The end result in either case would be the plants will die, it will just be at different speeds. The plants will die by the leaves starting to look limp/weak or by turning yellow. Once you can see these symptoms, you can be sure that the chemical has reached the roots and therefore the whole plant will die, you could then start digging the soil. The longer you leave it, the more the leaf material will die and the easier it will be to dig the soil. It is possible you could start digging the soil before visible symptoms are seen, but at this time of the year, I would recommend maybe waiting 1-2 weeks, in a months time 2-3 days would be fine.

Since glyphosate is non selective and will kill any plant material, you have to be very careful that it does get on any plants you, or your neighbours want to keep. Therefore do not apply on a windy day. Also do not apply when it is raining, as the chemical may just get washed off before it can be absorbed by the plant. Any glyphosate which touches the soil will be naturally degraded, it does not have any residual effect, it is only foliar acting.

Manure and dung, very simply, are the same things. Manure may also include some animal straw bedding material and the decomposition process will have started. But from your point of view, both will contain nutrients which will help your plants grow. You should be careful though that fresh dung it not applied to some plants, as it can sometimes scorch plants, also some plants do not like high nutrient content soil.

The best advice is to speak to other allotment growers, they will know what works at their specific site. They can tell you what plants are suited to the site, what manure or plant nutrition they use, and where they get it from. They may also be able to lend you a rotovator or the correct tools to help cultivate your soil. You should ask them if you could have a long weight for cultivation, some elbow grease for the rotovator, some tartan paint for your shed, and a chocolate teapot for sharing a drink. You may also find that your allotment neighbours may want to eat some skin buns with they drinks, four should be enough, so ask them if they know any shops were you can get four skin buns

(sorry couldn't resist )

 

[Cab-over Pete]

And four candles. Don't forget the four candles.

 

[7610 super q]

What are these fork handles of which you speak?
I still, after 8 pages, can't make up my mind if this is an elaborate wind up, or not.

 

[SRRC]

Hello 7610,

Thanks for mentioning to grow fish.

What type of fish do you think given the area are able to grow? I live in South Wales and there is sunny weather usually in the summer and a frequent amount of sunshine throughout the whole year.

I think growing strawberries is good, although when you mention a sunny spot, there is not the same amount of sunshine in the summer all year round. How much sunshine do strawberries need to grow well?

Thanks for your help

Now I know this is a wind up.

 

[7610 super q]

Now I know this is a wind up.

Well that's what first aroused my suspicions...... I live in South Wales, and haven't seen sunshine since 1976.....

 

[SRRC]

But it does have considerable Dead Horse potential.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

What are these fork handles of which you speak?
I still, after 8 pages, can't make up my mind if this is an elaborate wind up, or not.

You know what I'm on about. Four candles........







Or was that handles for forks?

 

[Oat]

maybe he should plant some bulbs and p's