Allotments 4 All

Lifted and stored the Dahlias, replaced some glass in the greenhouse, and cut my hand... one new piece broke!! finished clearing the big greenhouse.
:)

I did some weedding and notest some of the the weedy plots  near mine have been taken on (or maby the council strimed them :-\ ) then my 2 year old fell in the mud and we had to go home :'(
He sat in his buggy screaming nasty mammy nasty garden all the 20 min walk  home :-[

When he gets older he will probably be on the phone/mobile to report you to social services (joke).  I don't believe in smacking my grandchild, but if she is naughty I tell her I will take her to the allotment, and she runs about screaming 'oh no not the allotment' I will behave. Whenever we go shopping and go past the allotment she grabs my hand and leads me away.  I try to say it will only be a quick look and you will enjoy it, but apparently it is so boring, no swings, no playing football. We did have one breakthrough as she just loves shelling peas, although she won't eat them.  Also a great help sweeping/kicking up leaves for compost, so perhaps in a few years I will get her helping Nanny.

My 3 year old loves it, sometimes I sneak out because I just can't get things done with her there.  ;D ;D ;D

I had a lovly 4 hours today on the lotty managed to turn half the compost in the compost bin layering in new green stuff and sawing up any big bits. Its all very dry so had to water and left the bins open to allow any rain to soak in tonight :)

However i managed to impale my thumb in a 2 inch bramble so i had to stop doing anything that would be a problem to my wound. So managed to put fleese on the beds for me to plant tomorrow :)

Still have 8 fence pannels to clear where the brambles and hedges have grown though from outside the site :(

I will be spraying my paths with a mild dose of roundup while there is nothing in the beds at the moment.

Still very wet up there but it was wonderful today no wind and warm :)

Dug over and weeded the ground where my squash were growing, the soil is a lovely dark colour and crumbly, lovely jubley.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Too wet to dig on my plot as I had planned, so went to my OH and sons new plot which is a bramble covered wilderness and hacked back the brambles for 4 hours! Managed to find a water tank that I didn't know existed, and also cleared out the little shed now I can get into it. Found some papers dating back to 1956!

Went to help an elderly Indian lady with her garden (for a small fee). Lovely garden but in serious need of TLC. Magnificent monkey puzzle tree. Did a couple of hours of weeding, pruning and forking over of borders. She gave me a bag of goodies to take home - hula hoops, penguin, apple juice - just like a party bag. Lovely.

It's another wet day here, and I have a horrid cold (AGAIN!!) so no gardening at the moment, which is very frustrating. But I did pot up some bulbs last night to get them started - daffodils and chionodoxa. And started making a list of all the seeds I've got, so I can see what I have for swaps, and where I got them all from. What an anorak... :D

Oh, and made a diagram of my garden (from a photo on GoogleEarth!) so I can start planning and plotting. At least I can garden on paper, if nothing else...

It started raining just as I got to the plot so I refilled the bird feeders, had a look round admiring the fungi growing everywhere then came home!

Planted the autumn broad beans at last!

Had a look down the lotty to see if all is ok, the chap on the next allotment lower down whats he done but dog a trench right next to my allotment taking away the path that should run between each allotment, not happy going back down in an hour to see if he is there  >:(

pottered around, cleared a spent brassica bed, sowed the sweet peas, harvested some salads, back home early

Got loads done over 2 days. Re-organised fruit bed as it doesn't seem likely that I will get another 1/2 plot. Planted garlic, onions, spring cabbage and winter lettuce, tidied up compost area and cleaned out my shed at last. 8)
All very satisfying.

Lovely day. Soil nice and crumbly and not too cold after a couple of rain-free days. Did a lot of weeding, hoeing and clearing dead foliage. Planted two rows of aquadulce broad beans. Harvested some leeks and raspberries. Dug in some green manure (fenugreek). Turned one of the compost heaps. Noticed that some of my garlic, planted on 10 October, is coming through.

found green, almost luminous, caterpillars on my pak choi in the poly, here was me blaming the slugs  ???
anyway, they've gone to caterpillar heaven, via the chickens  ;D

Met a new plotholder and had a chat, nosed around other peoples plots.  Dug a bean trench.  Found some of the onions I planted had been pulled up.

Found what I suspect might be a rat run going into my Dalek composter >:(

I put up my shed  ;) ...... well my dad put up my shed an I helped ad did what he told me to ;D ;D ;D
only have to put the roofing felt on now  as the nails provided where no good  :-\ or so my dad says ;D

Harvested celeriac,parsnips, spuds and carrots  for my din dins today. :P      ;D ;D ;D