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 (DIR) Post #AvForHFKg6wywQdFq4 by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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       The bogalow fartichoke* patch is going gangbusters. It keeps losing outer stems as in the foreground of the photo, so I have tried corralling it with some string - not sure this string will hold the strain from such a large windsail of plant material but we shall see.These are somewhere around three metres tall at their highest.I did lowered the heights around the periphery to create a more mounded effect, it has worked, it's just a very high mound!* Jerusalem artichokes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvForHeVAX5ECUPM4O by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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       I've not posted a bogalow greenhouse photo for a while either, it's a bit of a jungle right now. The hedge behind limits it's light but it's going OK. We have harvested padrons, basil, coriander and some long eggplants from here this season. Black cherry tomatoes are ripening, so are some san marzano* on a plant that is not fruiting so well, plenty of medium (currently) green capsicums forming too. Soil in here needs more improving really, more sunlight would help too (eyes the hedge...)
       
 (DIR) Post #AvForI7ZQSKree0ZNY by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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       * second year with these Chiltern Seeds san marzanos and think we have to try something different next year, the passata holy grail is failing us! Small plants, weak yields.We have some different paste varieties in the #allotment polytunnel that seem to be doing better than the 6 SM plants we also have in the polytunnel. So the outcome of this (to be judged in the tasting mainly) may inform our attempted tomato "main crop" next year.Maybe source SM seeds elsewhere.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvForIWjusT6uhmfbs by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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       What are your English (#Norfolk) #allotment paste tomato recommendations Mastodon? Reliable yields, flavour most important, good yields a nice to have.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvForIykEks0JYt2GG by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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       📌 It may be worth explaining "bogalow" … we rent a small bungalow (red) in a strip of 3 behind a house in a region known as "the fens" (thus "bog") on the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border in England.Bog + Bungalow = Bogalow.The bungalow has a small patch of "garden" of its own where we have a raised bed (blue) plus an ornamental strip facing the road (white). In the shared grounds we have commandeered the rear garden bed (magenta), the small greenhouse (yellow), and a front bed for some herbs (green).
       
 (DIR) Post #AvForT6YaZ3pigcPpI by yvan@toot.ale.gd
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       📌 In extension to the above: I'll sometimes mention "the farm". Which maybe needs some context! I don't own a farm 😅  but I rent space on one where I used to rent a warehouse for my former business. It's about 5 doors up the road from the Bogalow. These days I only rent a bit of yard space, in this space I have two 20 foot shipping containers which are mainly storage and roughly split as persona/workshop. The workshop container has a power feed, a workbench area, and various tools including some larger items like a pillar drill, and mobile/worksite table saw, chopsaw, welder, etc.