Frost on car windscreen this morning.
Earliest I have ever known.
Onions planted and started to grow.
Planted some winter lettuce yesterday but with the frost last night wonder if they were big enough to survive.
Winter Cauliflower will go in next week.
Gosh Galtg whereabouts do you live?
I have my geraniums out still so was hoping there would be no frost for at least another’s month .
Eastern part of London on the border with Essex.
Normal time for the first frosts is around in this area the 3rd week in November.
The Squashes and Pumpkins growing on the site are showing signs of distress(not mine)
Ononin’s in Elephants in winter lettace in weeding done, cleared of rubbish into a pile to be burnt in November
But the great news a nasty bullying bit of scum has given up his allotment who has over the years has driven decent people away with his tactics.
Also now this bulling scum bag has left they have asked me to be on the Committee.
Ok back to start again.
Great weather can and will do a lot
Put in the first of Potatoes today Very deep.
Winter lettuce planted.
A bit of hand weeding.
Were I lost a few Onions planted in the fall planted more to day
Lot of digging and my back is killing me but getting ready to plant carrots and beetroot
Welcome to This year looking forward
Same again this year,
Sorry if it’s an obvious question Galty, but you’re not growing them in the same patch every year are you?
And what about the type you grow, are there more ‘resistant’ types you could try like there are in blight-resistant tomatoes and fly-resistant carrots etc?
Failing that, all I can think of is try a smaller amount in a container or a couple of Grow-bags with fresh compost, so it would be a brand new growing medium altogether.
It must be very frustrating, and you must be wasting time and money as well.
Oh, one more thought, you may have already read this, but here is a link to the RHS and what they say about White Rot. It may be worth a read?
Best to grow onions in the same ground year after year Unless you have had white rot…use jays fluid and wait 3 years to plant onions again other things can be planted.
Yes, I remember we talked about this before, and just went back and found it again in Post 90.
Thought the RHS advice may be useful?
Can’t suggest anything else, sorry.
I lose a lot of the winter sets only thing I can think of is I don’t keep the weeds down.
Mate on the next site loses a lot less than me.
Any way I planted some more to day see how it goes.
Ps last two years have not had any white rot.
PPS Post 90 we talked about tomato blight
Oh yes, you’re quite right, sorry. 
I Have just taken over an allotment, within walking distance of my house its been left fallow for a number of years and boasts a very impressive amount of weeds! still to wet to start digging 
but maybe soon
Just started to dig yesterday a lot of weeds…backs killing me.
When done in next couple of days will plant carrots and beetroot
One bonus turned up a lot of small potatoes which I will have to night with my stake.
OK
Digging done
Carrots and beets will be planted tomorrow.
Did clear a lot of weeds but still a lot left.
BUT
We have two hives on the allotment and was nice to watch the honey bees taking the nectar of the weeds I had left.
We have two honey bee hives on the site shame can not support any more
They Like Rosemary and Comfrey flowers which I grow, which will take another month to appear.
Now me being a bit of a slob left some sprouts in from last year which went to seed and started to produce flowers.
Took a break and sat down and watched the honey bees collecting pollen of the sprouts flowers and watched the honey bee having a punch up with a bumble bee both going for the same flower(another 200 hundred next to them)
PS the honey bee won
This brings back memiores.
Gave up my allotment last year was getting to much for me.
Using a small bit of my back garden now to grow vegs.
