Category: Allotment
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Trial & Error
This past week has seen the removal of our leafy greens, as stated in my last post. When they were pulled up, it was evident that the plants had suffered root shock. The ones that hadn’t, were eaten by caterpillars. This plot is now clear, apart from the courgettes. I will probably leave the plot…
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Two Months Already?
The last two months have flown by! But there is certainly a lot still to be done. Also, it is National Allotment week. So, Happy National Allotment week! What have you been doing on your plot this week? Our plot of tomatoes had become unruly, it has been quite windy in England over the last…
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Growth
After a little break in Yorkshire, we came back to an explosion of growth! We hadn’t even been gone a week. We are now starting to harvest the lettuce and courgettes, the potatoes are flowering so they will be ready to harvest in the next couple of weeks and the beans have grown so much…
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A New Addition
We finally have our shed! It was kindly gifted to us. Now we have to decide on a colour… purple, or purple? Unfortunately the orientation of the base slabs had to be changed due to the proportions of the shed, but this was a relatively quick job as the ground was already flat. The base…
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One Month Update
We have had the allotment for one month! I must say it has gone quickly. Most of our evenings after work and our weekends are spent here, we have already had several compliments about how good the allotment looks and that it hasn’t looked like it in years! But unfortunately, this week has been a…
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We’ve got all the thyme in the world
It is week three and we are powering ahead! The left side is now almost completely planted up. Plot one and two are potatoes, plot three is garlic, onion, celeriac and cos lettuce, plot four is a mixture of leafy greens and plot five is strawberries and rhubarb; but we still have a few strawberries…
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The rain won’t stop us
Believe it or not, we have only had the allotment two weeks but we are powering ahead. The rain certainly hasn’t stopped us. This weekend we concentrated on turning over the soil on the right side of the allotment. Unfortunately, the patch of soil is a little lower quality in comparison to the left due…
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Transformation… Tuesday?
So as somewhat expected I am a little late with the allotment update, but it certainly looks a lot different to how it did last week! The rain has hindered us somewhat, but we have still managed to plough on. On Saturday we concentrated on removing the patch of weeds on the right side of…
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All in a days work
Today was our first day on the allotment. We were quite lucky in that we didn’t need to be put on a waiting list, we only signed up yesterday! We decided that the best way to clear the allotment was in columns, starting from left to right. I concentrated on removing the smaller weeds and…