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  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @GWRS if you think -1 is warming up then you must be a hardy northern type 🤣. I managed to order 18 bags of compost for delivery on Monday from B&Q so I'm sorted for the year.

    I messed with the compost bin that's full of cardboard, it's all breaking down and will make good browns come mowing season. 

    Managed to put together the shuttering for the greenhouse base, it was all cut to before my mishap I won't be able to mix cement for good while yet. I'm hoping lockdown doesn't put delivery back again 6 months does seem so long for my little baby arriving 
  • Planning a trip to Allotment but just to get celeriac & beetroot,  might bring in the last butternut squash too before the frost gets it. I have an insulated cupboard in one shed but it still gets very cold there. 
    AB Still learning

  • KlinkKlink Posts: 261
    My pack of 28 gas canisters has arrived for my little stove at the allotment. We will have warm drinks  :) Not today though. Snow stops play.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Been to allotment , shelves , hooks in new shed put up 
    O/H dug up the rest of a bed of leeks , a couple of parsnips and chard still ok so some for dinner tonight 
    Also burnt sedum & chrysanthemum pruning’s
    1 degree when we got there but warmed up to 4 , when the sun came out
    Hoping to get up there Tuesday , weather permitting  

    Happy gardening if weathers ok 
  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,172
    Hello all thank you so much for comments, I still feel horrible for my chickens going and am blaming myself,  things just keep going round in my head

    @Celcius_kkw Nice lot of digging you have done nice sized beds
    Hampshire Gardener
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Hello everybody , good day at allotment as weather was ok 
    Laid slabs in front of new shed 
    3 barrow loads of bark chippings on paths & 2 barrow loads of horse manure on a leek bed 
    Pruned roses 🌹 

  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Went out as sunny but cold. Fed birds, and took off a few bits that had died back. Took out the odd weed from a veg bed that hadn't been covered and turned the top few inches. My goodness  was the soil cold 🥶 could not feel my hands after 10 minutes so came in.
  • KlinkKlink Posts: 261
    Lovely day here today,cold but sun was shining so we had a walk to the allotment.More manure collected for the compost heap and a bit of soil breaking to get me warm. Fed the birds and had a cuppa. Cheered us up no end  :)
  • Managed a dry day at the plots yesterday,  looking unlikely today as rain has set in. 
    AB Still learning

  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    After what appeared to be only moderate rain overnight (albeit all night), I was greeted by a shocking sight at our allotment this morning.  The small brook just beside it has burst it's banks, and a £40m Environment Agency project to prevent flooding further downstream has completely failed.  Our plot is a lake!


    I console myself that for now at least, our shed has not floated away.  More rain predicted tomorrow and Saturday........sigh
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