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put in my winter onions and garlic.  do we put our shallots in now or in spring?

Dug over the bean bed, plucked some leeks, a savoy cabbage, a couple of parsnips. All going in the soup for tomorrow evening once we've demolished the roast chicken and boiled up the carcass.  ;)

Ninnyscrops

Gave an overgrown and very dense laurel bush/tree a long overdue heavy prune to let some more light into the garden. It looks like making a huge difference and I'm looking forward to growing a wider variety of plants.

Nothing :'( Raining nearly all day.

I finished digging over my plot -  ;D

I am going up to my plot for the first time in about 6 weeks this week when it stops raining.
I have some onions to harvest and loads of beds to start digging over and preparing for next year. Got a list a mile long of jobs that need doing we have pulled out of the house move so the allotments mine for another year at least till we find another house we like :(

Cleaned out the allotment shed and cleaned all the muck of the tools with a wire brush and brought the tools home, so if before I forget 'Happy Christmas' everyone ;D

Looks like winter has come early, has some very cold nights here in cambridge and looking at next weeks weather there is some sleet on the way :(

Its still far 2 windy 23 mph to go onto the allotments so picked up my over wintering onion sets and garlic today and plan to take advantage of a promised lull on friday.

Harvested carrots and a small cucumber, dug up some more PFA's and took home some Kestrels.  ;D ;D ;D

I did my rent collecting bit at the weekend. I didn't get down today, but yesterday I put in ten rows of overwintering onions. Next job is the rest of the garlic.

Harvested carrots, sweetcorn and parsnips.  ;D ;D ;D

We had an Open Day in conjunction with the Apple Day at the Botanical Gardens next door, so I spent an hour welcoming visitors, had a wander round, then looked round the Botanicals. The Tennis Club is relaying one of its grass courts, so I acquired some turf at the same time.

Well today I managed to dig a patch clear of couch to put my fruit bushes in.  So I've now planted 2 raspberry, 1 blackberry, 1 tayberry and 2 blueberry bushes.  Tried digging the onion bed so I could get those in, but the soil is so wet and sticky I gave up half way through!  Going to wait for frost over next couple of days to dry it out a bit.  That's about it really.  Hopefully will get another couple of days up there over the next week to really work on it. Fingers crossed!  :)

Dug up some more PFA's, harvested four butternut squash and took home some Kestrels.  ;D ;D ;D

put a fleese closh over my spring cabbage, cauliflowers and curly kale - not bad in the pitch black lol

Collected 20 bags of cow manure, with a fellow allotmenteer (we are sharing a plot). Will be doing the same again on Saturday before the farmer moves the pile into an open field. Too far to walk with the bags as I might get my car stuck in the field if I drive in.  ::)
We were going to do a second run for more, but rain stopped play  :-[

just went and tided up and marked out the rest of the beds. still not feellind 100% but it was nice to get out of the house (kids are on school hol's) and the kids had a bit of a run round (up and down the path on the side of the plot for some strange reason ???) and it tired them out a bit

Didn't go to the lottie today but spent a lovely day in the garden tidying up the borders, planting lots of bulbs, mulching and having a bonfire. I seem to have bought a lot of dark purple (nearly black) and white tulips without realising it - the Magpies supporter in me coming out, I suppose.

Dug up more PFA's, harvested carrots, celeriac and spring onions, filled up two big black bags of leaves from the park.  ;D ;D ;D

Still harvesting Corn Kev... I am impressed...  ;D