Hello everybody , back of hols from Tenby Garden this afternoon & allotment this morning Harvested lots of stuff including some sprouts Unfortunately the rats 🐀 got the sweet corn 🌽 Burnt all the pruning I did before Holiday As ever lots to do Hope alls well with everybody , Autumn coming in fast
Have been cutting back the brambles at the top of the plot as they are too near to an apple tree and preventing air flow, they were about six feet high and the understory is quite dead but as I still want the brambles as they provide a security barrier between my plot and the boundary fence I'm hoping that they grow healthy stems but don't encroach on the tree again. (glad that I could use the word "understory" as I've heard it used on the gardening programmes) I don't suppose that I've used it in the correct context though!
Picked all the basil and the remaining gardeners delight and sungold tomatoes, that left just 2 aubergine plants in the greenhouse. I then planted spring cabbage and cavel Nero kale and sowed spinach and mizuna in the greenhouse. Cleared away all the tomato waste and weeded some of the bare patches
@Chris-P-Bacon , I’ve got an excellent air pistol but you never seem them in the daytime Allotment committee have bought some commercial rat 🐀 poison and will be putting it around site tomorrow , at least it keeps them at a reasonable level
Harvested all of the Autumn King carrots much better than I expected as when I weeded them a month or so ago I noticed that some had slug damage, I'd like to grow a bigger crop to store next year so will be constructing some carrot fly barriers to make it easier to keep a check on them throughout the growing season as the ones that I have now are getting too rickety to keep uncovering once they are in place. I've been allotmenting for nine years now and there are still things that I need to get right/improve on, as they say on Beechgrove "every days a school day"!
@barry island I must be a very slow learner then, I have been Allotmenting boy and man over 50 years and I still don't always get it right 😅 Every season is different what worked last time might not work the next , that's what keeps me going, "there's always next year" is the other mantra that is often used.
I quite agree @Allotment Boy what with being blindsided by the weather, seed producers, compost and manure manufacturers, its a wonder we ever get anything to fruition 😆
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Garden this afternoon & allotment this morning
Harvested lots of stuff including some sprouts
Unfortunately the rats 🐀 got the sweet corn 🌽
Burnt all the pruning I did before Holiday
As ever lots to do
Hope alls well with everybody , Autumn coming in fast
Allotment committee have bought some commercial rat 🐀 poison and will be putting it around site tomorrow , at least it keeps them at a reasonable level
Every season is different what worked last time might not work the next , that's what keeps me going, "there's always next year" is the other mantra that is often used.