Talkback: Allotment friends

i have raised beds on my plot and there great for growing all your salad stuff.

Advice Please, anyone. We have just taken over a neglected allotment. All the nettles, waywind and grass have died from the weedkiller. We have now dug two good plots with a dividing path. Self set potatoes have been very nice thank you on the one cultivated patch. Plans for two raised beds and a compost frame. Is there anything we can put in to bring us a return before Christmas? What is your advice please for planting Aug/Sept/Oct. We have plans to rough dig again to let the frost do it's work over winter. Advice please on pruning a huge flowering currant and a sorry lilac. I look forward to hearing any advice you can give us.

i started an allotment in northwood kirkby last year nr liverpool it is run by four girls well it was then they got shrubs which cost alot of money so for every one they got i took about ten cuttings four them and they have a 30ft pollytunel so i put them in it allso i done trays of plants fore them i spent alot of time in ther in the winter taken care of them i gave them a grape to grow in the polltunel which has trays of plants fore them but when the sumer came no one came only me they might of cume once a month if that the plants in the pollytunel dride up the toms dride up all the plants dide sume cutting was allwright so i took them andput them in twocold frams on my plot i am on my owen most the time i wish they was sume one else ther to grow plants with and help one and other that wood be grate but no ther is more land next to the allotment i wont moure allotments they dont they wont swings fore kids to play on ther is an two year waighting list fore an allotment hear sothat land wood help to bring that list down ther is allredyswings here it is sad thers anoter allotment up the road from hear on brookhey drive and they wont me to go ther but i have put alot of time swet and money in to it idont no if sume one cumes to see the allotment they bring them or tell them to cume when i am not ther they get the lokel rag to take pichers of them not on ther plot but on mine not on thers becouse i am not ther so they get a false picher thats sad becose it may be a very good thing fore kirkby fore a change and not sumthing bad i wish the council wood see that than a false picher may be that will change you never no

this year for the first time i used protection against carrot fly,anazing results what a crop.i now need to know the best way to keep them over winter can anyone advise

I like the idea of raised beds as the grass cannot invade the plot whilst you are not looking, and for people that have trouble bending to plant seeds it makes sence.