I have a problem this year....... Im moving house and have my allotment at home! I have really tried not to plant too many things,but you know how it is!... I have about a month left to enjoy the summer there...HELP!!!!!

Potatoe Hulm Blackened, Runner and French Beans along with courgette and marrow plants decimated on our allotments as the night time temperature plummeted to 0 degrees here on the sandy soil of Breckland. Even though I personaly took the precaution to cover my potatoes and beans I have also suffered some frost damage. The weather of the previous week had lulled everybody into a false sense of security but as the old saying goes "never cast a clout untill May is out". On the garden front many people lost their bedding plants so the only winners are the garden centres and other retail outlets as people replace the lost plants. We was hoping for a good year with our potatoes after the whole potatoe and tomatoe crop suffered from blight last year, most of thge allotment growers on our site are organic, and we are surrounded by farms that one of the major crops are potatoes so we have to live with chance of blight every year. Thats enough doom and gloom for now, we just have to look on the bright side and it's not too late to sow more beans and courgettes after all being a gardener means you are an eternal optimists anyway.

Can anyone recommend a cordless strimmer for an overgrown allotment? I have looked at a variety of websites (including Which) and there does not seem to be too much written about them.

I need one to cut down heavy grass, over 2 foot. Any suggestions, please?

Bill

Busy,busy week-end planting out all my beans, peppers and tomatoes and weeding here on my allotment.

These past few weeks everything has gone from nothing to rampant as it has been hot here in Thetford, and our soil is now crying out for rain, even though we heavily manure and mulch where we can.