Today I am sharing with you photos of my partner's Veganic Allotment in Chester. He has been working on the site since 2018 however he has been growing for many years.
Stuart follows the No Dig Methodology which helps to keep all the vital organisms in the soil in a stable condition, as well as maintaining a better nutrient balance throughout the growing season, one very useful benefit is there are fewer weeds!
Each year a new layer of compost is added on top of each bed. 70% of the compost used this year was produced on site with ambitions in the future of reaching 100%.
You can see how to start a new No Dig area in a previous post we did. 🍅🍅🍅 Creating A New No Dig Tomato Bed 🍅🍅🍅
As you can see from the photos, the allotment is rather large! In fact, it is around 5 allotment plots altogether.
I was hoping to follow the No Dig methodology myself so I can certainly learn a lot from this plot.
I am going to share with you some of the beds as they currently are.
Allium Bed
The header image of the blog is the Allium bed. In the front, you have Sturon white onion
In the middle portion, you have spring onion Ischikrona and the last 1/3 of that bed is shallots Zebrune.
All Alliums varities have been grown from seed in this bed. Whereas the Onion bed further down are from Sets.
Lettuce & Beetroot Bed
Towards the back are the beetroot, there are 3 varieties of beets called Detroit // Burpees Golden / Boltardy
The front segment is Cut and Come again lettuce, with some Summer Purslane and Flashy Butteroak to fill in when the lettuce gets picked and eaten.
Potato Bed
There are two other Potato beds enough Potatoes to last us all year!
Onion Bed
These are a mix of Red & White Onion Sets
Carrot Bed
These are the Amsterdan Variety = D
Parsnip Bed
Strawberry Bed
These will be ready for picking soon!
Yellow Courgette Bed
These are called Gold Rush.
Mainly Green Courgette Bed
The variety of courgette is called Black Beauty
Sweetcorn, Beans and Squash
Sweetcorn in the first quadrant. Then 3 wigwams of climbing beans are a mix between Cobra/Barrlotti Beans. The squash are all a mix of Red Kuri and Meruhen.
We will be sharing updates from both Stuart's Plots as well as Allotment24 in Denbigh throughout this growing season. So if you have anything you would like to see more of let us know. = D
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That's looking really productive. I planted a few things at the weekend, but will need to do plenty of watering. We've made some good compost. At least the strawberries are fruiting nicely in time for the tennis.
Ooo excellent about your compost! Stu picked some of the strawberries today, will be doing a separate post on this over the coming days. Got a bit of a back log going on!
What Veg is it your growing?
I had some runner beans and carrots to plant out. Sowed some beetroot seeds. We usually have some courgettes too as they can be productive.
We have rhubarb and various berries to harvest. Some are not ready yet. Also got apple and plum trees.
You've got a good bit of variety then! And the fruits I am envious I have no fruit trees, however, my neighbour gives me a load of cooking apples some years.
I wish you a good harvest =D
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Thank you so much. I will check this out =D
Wow, this is awesome, this may even be a dream right here. thank you for sharing this and to know it is a vegan garden so no slaughterhouse products going into it is awesome
Thank You. He really is living the dream. I feel very fortunate to be part of it.
Exactly no animals harmed at all in this =D
This garden is huge and very promissing. Beautifully prepared. It shows a lot of love and thought has been put into it.
Good luck!