Not sure if this really counts but I went today and wheeled about 1/2 dozen loads of wood chip for various paths & around the BlackBerry (leaving a good clear area immediately by the stems). I am hoping this will suppress the weeds that always seem to invade. I harvested some more beetroot, they have been one of the best crops this year but coming to an end now.
Happy New Year allotmentiers! Seems incredible that it's only six weeks away from seed sorting, just enough time to sort out the layout of my little veg patch.😁
I'm sure plenty on here will have a giggle at this post, went out this morning to look over the veg patch with a new master plan in place. This is where my naivety, stupidity, over enthusiastic approach showed up.
I'd worked a nice plan to keep brassicas together, runner beans in a good spot, salads slightly shaded and so on. But of course I planted some garlic last autumn which went just wherever I had room without any thought for this coming year and I'd be planting veg in the same place as last year.
Back inside the house with more A4 paper I'm working out some new plans while appreciating peoples comments on planning and being laughed at roundly by Mrs Wilderbeast who can't see the point in any planning and would bung everything in totally haphazardly.
So much to learn and I have to exercise my brain far more (Mrs Wilderbeast says I don't have any)
Hello all not got a computer to use at minute using mum's one it has gone in to be repaired
Just wrote this on anyone done any gardening thought I would put on here
Well not sure how to say this but having such sad and horrible time here as I did not know the storm was going to be big one - windy weather came in late - never got to look at the weather forecast, I feel terrible as the chickens that got moved the pictures I added last week sometime of the coop/run and plot - the two bantams chickens I had moved to the polytunnel have gone (think to heaven) on boxing day got the coop cleaned for them
When we went to the allotment plot on Sunday morning 27/12/20 The whole polytunnel frame was on my neighbours plot with cover and poles snapped - then on my plot think the polytunnel frame knocked into the chicken house and run over as the coop was on its back lid open as the top lifts up all wet inside and could only find feathers of my girls one bit near house and one lot bit further away - so think a fox must of got them, feeling terrible as moved them in the polytunnel wish I did not move them, or did something else
So been having a rough time trying to look after other chickens at allotment, the bantam chickens were only a year and a bit old
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I do a bit of digging but not much
Been to plot this morning and had a good burn up
O/H popped up with some home made parsnip soup to keep me warm and dug a load of leeks up
Seems incredible that it's only six weeks away from seed sorting, just enough time to sort out the layout of my little veg patch.😁
I'd worked a nice plan to keep brassicas together, runner beans in a good spot, salads slightly shaded and so on. But of course I planted some garlic last autumn which went just wherever I had room without any thought for this coming year and I'd be planting veg in the same place as last year.
Back inside the house with more A4 paper I'm working out some new plans while appreciating peoples comments on planning and being laughed at roundly by Mrs Wilderbeast who can't see the point in any planning and would bung everything in totally haphazardly.
So much to learn and I have to exercise my brain far more (Mrs Wilderbeast says I don't have any)
Just wrote this on anyone done any gardening thought I would put on here
Well not sure how to say this but having such sad and horrible time here as I did not know the storm was going to be big one - windy weather came in late - never got to look at the weather forecast, I feel terrible as the chickens that got moved the pictures I added last week sometime of the coop/run and plot - the two bantams chickens I had moved to the polytunnel have gone (think to heaven) on boxing day got the coop cleaned for them
When we went to the allotment plot on Sunday morning 27/12/20 The whole polytunnel frame was on my neighbours plot with cover and poles snapped - then on my plot think the polytunnel frame knocked into the chicken house and run over as the coop was on its back lid open as the top lifts up all wet inside and could only find feathers of my girls one bit near house and one lot bit further away - so think a fox must of got them, feeling terrible as moved them in the polytunnel wish I did not move them, or did something else
So been having a rough time trying to look after other chickens at allotment, the bantam chickens were only a year and a bit old