Allotments 4 All

Quote from: brownowl23 on February 17, 2011, 17:51:01
met with head honcho of the allotment dept at my plot today regarding the problems on my plot. As no one has actually caught the yob in question and made a statement they cant actually accuse him, even though the evidence is scattered all over his plot.  So only a letter is going to go out to all plot holders on our site. Not really going to help.

Infuriating. I had a comparable impasse when I was having stuff stolen wholesale. Then when the woman's daughter took over her plot, the council sat back and did nothing while thousands of blue bricks, Victorian edging tiles and the like went missing. Another of the woman's plots was taken over by an antique dealer with no interest in gardening, who again stole a load of stuff, though we did break in and take most of the blue bricks before she could dispose of them. The bricks were distributed to people round the site, as no doubt they'd been taken from plots in the first place.

I meant to do some digging today, but wasn't feeling up to it. I did at least get down briefly, meet my new neighbours (hope they make a go of it!) and potted up Blackkitty's Sarracenias, which arrived this morning.

Not as much as planned as it rained until 3pm and the ground is sodden.  Pleased that we managed to get the foundation pipes for the polytunnel in yesterday.

Today I contented myself with sowing in the greenhouse: Douce Provence peas, Lobjoits lettuce, Kamal red onion and dwarf Cosmos.

Just back from the lotty no movement up there with water everywhere, managed to construct another raised bed and planted two types of garlic, :)

planted the spuds for the challenge, weeded the onion and cabbage bed, raked over a couple of beds and sowed some pre-chitted parsnips  ;D
sowing some marmande, black krim and plum toms in the propagator this afternoon

 

           One of the Solent White bulbs I planted today had eighteen cloves the most I have had before as been twelve :)

sowed 1/2 pkt broad beans in cold frame.wish it would dry up then i can rotovate the plot!!

Manure moving, potato area almost cleared, plot looking better than it has in years :)

Prepared 4 tubs for Spud challenge
Weeded strawberry patch
Cleared some old/rotten veg and put in the dalek.
:)

planted the 3rd spud bed in the tunnel and covered it , sowed some silverskin and radish under fleece and sat drinking tea in the shed trying to warm up  ;D
sowed some black krim, oxheart and marmande toms in the propagator and  fielderkraut, red and greyhound cabbage on the windowsill  :)

planted one spud  ;D but more importantly got another bed dug over and compost spread, more manure spread and sowed seeds - salad rocket, delphiniums, palms, sweet rocket

bought some lovely small watering cans for the schools, sowed some white and ordinary carrots inside, took lots of herb sowing and split the sweet cicely and repotted the bits  ;D

Spuds have gone in the tubs for Kev's challenge ;D.Thought i would try starting off our garlic in pots this year and transplant later if the ground ever dries out ???. I ordered four garlic bulbs  from marshalls and some other seed first time i have ever ordered from a seed company.I must say very impressed 83 cloves out of the four bulbs :o

Planted my spuds for Kev's challenge.  Not a lot else as ground is too wet for digging.

Cleared out weeds and old carrots from my carrot bath
Dug up old cabbage stumps and weeded some of the pea/bean bed for this year
Dug out quite a few strawberrys that have been wandering tooo far
Put a pallet hold up thingy on the bean bed and filled with manure, dalek and council compost for a small raised bed
Competition spuds are going in tomorrow, I forgot to take them with me today.
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Wet and miserable here to wet to do anything , hope to have the spuds in this weekend  if I get a dry day. Broad beans are looking good Manics are way in front of me

Bit soggy here, but planted out some parsley (tesco) and planted some peas under bottle cloches. 

At last managed to get a few hours in at allotment.

Surrounded raspberry area with new edging, and planted two rhubarb roots. But the main thing planted three new apple trees and "planted" mistletoe on their branches. Fingers crossed that they take :)

Lets hope for a good day tomorrow Ripley

Wet and muddy, but I planted 4 spuds in tubs for the challenge and pulled up quite a few clumps of grass, they wiggled out in the soggy ground root and all, and I fell arse over tit in the mud,  :-X nobody was about though.   :-[ :-[ :-[

sat in back garden watching my bees being busy!!

bootiful day here - emptied yet another big compost bin onto strawberry beds after weeding them, sowed seeds - cabbages, caulis, beetroot - noticed flower buds on some strawberries about to burst  :o, didn't really want to come home  ;D