"Kim wrote in message
Well I've finally gone and got myself an allotment (125 sq meters) but
haven't got a clue what I should really be doing at this time of year.
It's fairly weed free thank goodness and was treated with Round-Up last
autumn (will this affect anything I may want to plant)?
Any advice would be much appreciated. I'm in Cardiff, where it's fairly
mild
compered with other parts of the UK at the minute.

Welcome Kim.
Roundup has a 40 day half life I read somewhere so you can just plant away
and be thankful there are no perennial weeds left. You will still get the
annuals coming up as normal.

We have just planted our onion sets and shallots together with some garlic
(best planted in autumn but just topping up). A tip is to plant all these
wider apart then they say, we do 9inches between sets and 1ft between rows
simply so we can hoe between them as they grow and not have to hand weed on
our knees. You also get bigger bulbs that way.

In the next few days we will plant our early peas (Feltham First) and our
early spuds.

You will also need to buy your second early (Kestrel) and maincrop spuds now
to lay out to chit,(put them in boxes in a light and cool but frost free
place to start to grow shoots). Be careful you don't buy too many.

So that should keep you busy for a while. :-)

Keep a little book on what you plant, when, and the results, so you know for
next year what works for your area/soil, what variety does well, what needs
planting later/earlier etc.
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Regards
Bob (in N. Surrey )