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Allotment diary.

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  • Won't give any advice cotty1000

    Just say .

    had an invitation to spend a day on Willbaras  allotment plot and have seen what it looked like thirty years ago and what it looks like now.

    I would go with him.

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    Steady progress made today.

    I checked online and I think it is badger poo

    Last edited: 20 September 2017 17:41:08

  • Go along with scroggin 

    Watching badgers at play is worth sacrificing some of your produce.

    You would know if there are badgers about they are inclined to leave a mark on the ground where their belly drags along the ground.

    Or so i was told when we thought we had badgers on our allotment site.

    The trouble is they can cause a lot of damage when they put their snout to the ground and just move along.

    nothing seems to stop them.

    wonderful creatures though 

  • I will experiment with urine and chillies. Perhaps orange peel and I will see what happens.

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    cotty1000 says:

    I will experiment with urine and chillies. 

    See original post

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    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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    I have no idea what this beautiful caterpillar will turn into. 

    Progress is being made. Lots of ideas thought of,but hard work first. The site is looking better. A lot of stuff has been cleared. Many trips to the tip are being made but on the plus we have lots of firewood for my sister

  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723

    Going right back to your opener, I wouldn't worry about a rotovator and nettles (other than their roots getting tangled round it) When I bought this place the old veg garden was nettles and thistles over my head, I pulled as much as I could out over winter and then ran a rotovator over it twice in spring folled by a rake/garden fork, the nettles vanished, the thistles didn't as they went down deeper than the rotovator or the fork, but they were delt with with a dutch hoe. Nettles I do not find a big problem although their seedlings come as a nasty surprise when weeding! Now Horsetail urgh not so much fun.

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