As I say I never leave anything on my plot that I can't afford to lose, I never lock the shed door as there is no point, I've never seen a garden shed that can't be broken into or worse still burnt down. Maybe I shouldn't tempt fate but the only things that have gone missing from my plot in 9 years is a freshly planted courgette plant, all my pears which hadn't ripened they didn't touch any apples and a short plank of wood which they used to smash their way into other peoples sheds. The site does have cctv and people have been caught one had come 60 miles from Birmingham to break into sheds, of course cctv isn't a lot of good if the culprits wear masks. The committee are very keen to prevent crime and make a fuss if anyone takes anything from other plots even if they are vacant but we still have spates of both high level and low level stealing and vandalism.
sheds at allotment broken into last night - my shed porch area black plastic got knifed in areas on sides and front all taped up for now nothing taken from my mess inside
Also they opened the chicken coop door so they were in the run before we got there and broke open all my storage boxes with chicken stuff bedding and feed in and made a mess - pad locks have gone so stressful
I have new neighbours so they were there today mowering plot and tillering ground and making raised beds
Morning at allotment , planted 2 beds of leeks , 1 bed of sweet corn & kale Decied to sew some courgettes & squash direct Hoping to spend tomorrow at plot for some weeding
As things are SO far behind today put the spare cucumbers and tomatoes into the biggest pots I have, staked them and put them back in the conservatory again. NEVER have I had toms and cucumbers in the conservatory this late. The mini cucumbers have half grown cues on! The lettuce are nearly used, and the second sowing are up ( both still in pots) and not in the veg patch. Don't even ask about the summer bedding. 🤦♀️
Added pea sticks to the podding peas and did some weeding. Need more sticks for the mangetout (am I the only person who tries to do a Del Boy impression whenever I say mangetout 🤣🤣). Plants are growing really fast since the rain, harvested the first land cress and wow wasn't expecting the heat in that very tasty !!. Sowed corriander and parsley. I mentioned early in the year about possible aminopyralid contamination well the jury is still out, the broad beans haven't done well at all they have only made 2ft high and the stems are noticeably twisted up. Pods are now forming so think I'll get some sort of harvest.
Hello , yesterday morning and all day today at allotment 2 beds of leeks , 1 of sweet corn & kale Also sewed courgettes & squash direct in ground , never did that before Had so many leeks gave loads away Also did loads of weeding
Only a quick trip to Allotment yesterday before the rain set in again. Watered in greenhouse, harvested Asparagus, Rhubarb, and I was given a lettuce, by one of my friends there, he is well ahead of me as usual!
I’ve got lots planned this week - all my tender crops are going in the ground this week - sweetcorn, squash, tomatoes as well as dahlias. Our weather forecast says we should be having minimum temps of 8 or above in the next two weeks so I take that as the last frost is over..
also bought myself a grass trimmer to mow down the weed that has grown absolutely rampant in the last month.. rather looking forward to this bit actually given I’ve never used a strimmer before..
Yes strimming looks fun but when I've done it it's been a pain in the bum, maybe you have a better strimmer than mine but the nylon cord breaks every 5 minutes and takes 10 minutes to fix and the machine gets really heavy after a while, I gave up as it took 2 or 3 hours to strim the paths on my plot and after a rainy period like we are having now it needed doing every week, in the end I got a load of cardboard and bark chippings and covered all the paths with that, having said all of that the weeds and grass have now taken over again as the cardboard has broken down and it looks like I will have to get the strimmer out again. I hope that you have more fun than I had good luck.
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Morning at allotment , planted 2 beds of leeks , 1 bed of sweet corn & kale
Decied to sew some courgettes & squash direct
Hoping to spend tomorrow at plot for some weeding
The lettuce are nearly used, and the second sowing are up ( both still in pots) and not in the veg patch.
Don't even ask about the summer bedding. 🤦♀️
2 beds of leeks , 1 of sweet corn & kale
Also sewed courgettes & squash direct in ground , never did that before
Had so many leeks gave loads away
Also did loads of weeding
also bought myself a grass trimmer to mow down the weed that has grown absolutely rampant in the last month.. rather looking forward to this bit actually given I’ve never used a strimmer before..