Garden Plans > 2013: 29 East

About this Garden Plan

New Allotment Garden, half plot size, sits on a south facing slight slope, communual grassed area on the north side Apple orchard on the south side. Soil is pretty good but plot had been neglected for over a year.

Plan Type, Soil and Location

Garden Location: St Albans
Garden Size: 75' 0" x 19' 11"
Garden Type: Allotment
Garden Layout: Traditional layout - rows etc
Sun or Shade: Sunny
Garden Soil Type: Good soil

Plan Notes

Garden Plan

Plant List

 PlantNumberSpacingSpacing in RowsNotes
Beans (French) 3220cm15cm x 30cm 
Beans (Runner)
 Polestar
3220cm15cm x 30cm 
Onion (Autumn planted)
 Senshyu Yellow
6415cm15cm x 25cmSenshyu Yellow - An extremely popular Japanese over-wintering variety, reliably producing a heavy crop of semi-globe-shaped, straw-coloured bulbs of excellent quality, which should be ready to harvest in early July.
Onion (Autumn planted)
 Electric
6415cm15cm x 30cmElectric - Produces outstanding quality, shiny, deep red semi-globe-shaped onions with excellent flavoured pink tinged flesh. Ideal for over-wintering, plant in autumn-early winter for harvest May-June.
Onion (Autumn planted)
 Early Crop Radar
6415cm15cm x 25cmRadar - Our most popular over-wintered onion, producing superb pale-to-mid brown skinned onions from mid July. Green bulbs can be pulled from late May. Bulbs have firm flesh with a mild taste and keep well until autumn.
Peas 14410cm10cm x 20cm 
Rhubarb 190cm90cm x 90cm 
Sweetcorn 2535cm30cm x 45cm 

Planting Times

Plant List key
 PlantJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Beans (French)
Beans (Runner)
 Polestar
Onion (Autumn planted)
 Senshyu Yellow
Onion (Autumn planted)
 Electric
Onion (Autumn planted)
 Early Crop Radar
Peas
Rhubarb
Sweetcorn



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