Allotments 4 All

Out at 6am - feeling a bit stronger - watered & pinched out 60 Toms - sought e-mail help on one variety going yellowy/brown - levelled a 20'x12' patch & planted 64 Sweet corn - 12 French Beans - cut spring Cabbage for lunch - dug 2 helpings of Pentland Javelin Potatoes.

Not much else.

And did lunch!!

Planted out french beans and sunflowers in the midday sun- probably a bad idea but not sure when I'll get down there next. Tried not to look at the grass which I swear has grown at least a foot since Friday! Picked the first artichoke of the year  :D, and probably the last asparagus  :'(

so far i have done nothing today our new sofa is being delivered this week and i ordered the hubbie to repaint the front room before it arrives which means the room will look nice and fresh. Going to try and get up to the allotment later this afternoon so that i can finish earthing up my spuds and do more weeding. Looks like I also need to do a little watering as its such a warm day.

Tried to haul out a dead Lavetera.  Shame it died, we lost a few shrubs this winter and gradually replacing them.  Its warm out there but dull and it could rain.  Going to a garden centre soon once OH wakens up.

:)

well over the last couple of days ive planted out my cabbages, brussell sprouts, climbing beans, lifted my 1st overwintering onions, planted pickling onions, tided up some weeds/long grass, planted bunching onions, sunflowers, more beetroot and filled up the 2nd water butt as im away this weekend and fiance has the job of watering the garden - on the subject of watering mentioned to one of the guys on the allotments the other day i would be away for a couple of weeks in august and was gona set up a drip irrigation system - he said dont worry about that  - i will keep it watered for you - who says theres no community spirit any more  ;D

sounds like you're feeling stronger Tim! well done.

I've planted out my leeks, harvested the last of this batch of spinach, planted out my 'spare' runners in the front garden and done a bit of weeding. It's a bit sunny out there for a ginger so i'll go out again early evening and plant out some more chard and nasturtiums in the front garden, sow some pak choi and radishes and a few other bits and weed down by the pond.

planted celeriac, cauli all year,8 out door toms,2 cues burpless,weeded asparagus, cut some comfrey to make liquid feed, harvested strawbs and rhubarb, cut and come again lett, radish and spinach, and earthed up the spuds a bit more, all without a t shirt on so now I'm lobster red. But a good morning on the lottie. oh and a lot of chatting to other plot holders. ;D

Trimmed the vine, so Summer is definitely here... Sun on and off but T-shirt firmly on so no Lobster impressions here!
;D

Finished off neccesary jobs in the garden and it looks a treat BUT...I have discovered the dreaded horse tail growing along the back fence on the other side. This land belongs to the local council plant nurseries so I will be there tomorrow to persuade them to do something positive. They aren't very good at weed control, they have knotweed along another border and all they do is chop it down now and again ::)

Had a bit of a waisted day today.
A mate who was going to help me bring some tools from my mums in his car let me down at the last minute and I had no time to make other arrangements.
By the time I had waited around for him and him calling to let me know.
I had lost to much time to make it worth while starting

Cream crackered........moved 19 big paving slabs onto my new half plot in order to make a path, OH helping...glad I don't have to do that too often!

Pulled up about 20 rusted metal stakes up on the new plot, we think they were used to support some long rotted raised bed edgings.........they were acting like blooming hidden punji stakes, I had nearly turned my ankle on them several times!

OH also dug up an old silver teaspoon....either we had posh previous tenants, or it is an ex army one from when their horses were exercised on the site before it became allotments?

planted up brussel,broccoli,cukes,dug over un used bit behind the shed and put a load of comfrey in.
OOH and sat in chair a lot.

i put 20 square feet of decking in over the weekend from one side of the garden to the other looking good new patio set so now i can sit like steve a little more when needed lol bought some stuff hanging baskets ,brackets ext need compost for them now .
going to see my railway sleepers today from the timber mills there cutting them for me new ones as i needed them to hold back some soil as i have a tiered garden well will have when im done

fried ourselves yesterday on the plot, but planted out 22 beans of various  varieties thanks to the A4A Bean swap - thanks to everyone who played - I look like a right old bean geek with so many varieties.  Showed OH how to dibble & plant leeks & after the first pot full,  left him to it.  We now have 102 planted up leeks  :o  He doesn't weed out the runts like I do..........

Just spent a few hours gently sizzling in the sun, digging out a path for the slabs! Didn't do too much, felt very lethargic in the heat.... any excuse for a sit down in the shade! 8)

Perspired profusely  8)

Sat in it!   ;D ;D

Played in my garden with g'daughter this morning, then went to plot p.m.
Planted sweetcorn and peppers, swapped a round cu plant for some brussels, planted leeks and gave overs away.Fed,watered,weeded and straw mulched the courgettes and fruit and ate my first strawberry ;D

Tried to dig over the spinach bed that has gone to seed & is full of thistles & mare's tail.

TOO HOT  ???

Watered EVERYTHING & came home to fill up the large paddling-pool in the back garden. Two little people have been splashing & swimming in it - and now I am going to have myself a lovely barbecue!

done nothing work up with a migrane and  have been sitting in the front room in front of the air con unit with it all day. Never had such a bad migrane cant focus and feel slightly dizzy.

hoping its going to be gone tomorrow as i really need to spend the day on the plot.

:'(