Went to the allotment shop and then check on plot as still windy had to keep the tarpaulins on the pallets then rained again seems to be lots of hail and rain this morning and now dry and sunny but still windy
Aster2 shall try to persevere with brambles even if they get me prickles
Sowed some more sweet peas today and also trying the damp kitchen roll method with the seeds that I have had for a while
It is hard work to start but after clearing your plot it gets a lot easier. I rough dug the top of the plot, covered it with plenty of muck and black plastic. After 2-3 months it was so much easier to dig over and is teeming with worms.
I got to the plot this morning and managed to plant the rose I'd bought about three weeks ago (it's Lady Emma Hamilton), but not before the heavens opened. Rain, hail, thunder and lightning. I didn't mind the rain and hail, but thunderstorms are something else, so I beat a quick retreat. (I don't know when I'm going to get to plant the poor strawberries.)
Slugs don't usually go for my strawberries until they start fruiting.
Did a quick repair today on the shed roof as the wind had torn the felt. Lots of small jobs done before it started to rain. Potted up some dahlias and sowed seeds in the GH.
There'a also a bird nesting in the shed, thought I so one fly out yesterday but didn't think much of it, found the nest today when I was hanging up my tools... There was a bundle of straw and stuff with a hole in the middle wedged in the corner near a window. Hope I haven't scared it off, don't think it was there today though.
We get quite alot of wildlife, rabbits, squirels, slow worms, frogs, toads, a robin last year followed me around the plot when I was digging, sometimes sitting just a couple of ft away. Then there's all the bee's and butterflies in the summer. Heard a grasshopper on another plot last year, was ever so envious, I hadn't heard one of those in this country since I was a child, and then about Aug/Sept time heard one on my plot
I always associated grass hoppers with the summer holidays. Our house backed onto what would now be called green belt land.
There was a field for horses to graze and the grass would be cut in the summer, we would build dens in the hay bales. We'd also catch grasshoppers, the winner was the one who caught the most.
By the time I was born the allotments from the war were well over grown There's nothing left now apart from houses and the 'big tree', must be under a consevation order, when I drive past I often look up and think my name's scratched at the top of that.
Went to the plot today lots of damage done to plots few sheds over, the winds in that storm was really strong
On my plot I had to cover the pallets over and lost one of my signs some where can't find it and had to push back the stake on the apple tree
Did some clearing up of the rubbish in the brambles lots of bags of rubbish and still could fill more - did get rained on today
There were grass hoppers all over my plot last year so lots of sounds
Aster2 good your ordered the strawberry mats
Zoomer44 birds nesting in the shed that's nice hope you see them again, saw a couple of magpies on some ones plot in the horse poo collecting material for a nest
Went to the allotment plot today and done more cutting of brambles for a few hours and well those brambles have been chopped down so now it is just the big piles of brambles to cut up - one lot for garden bin and other lot for a fire sometime, also the mound of rubbish to clear and remove got four bags so far
spotted someones shed in bits on the floor not good
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Went to the allotment shop and then check on plot as still windy had to keep the tarpaulins on the pallets then rained again seems to be lots of hail and rain this morning and now dry and sunny but still windy
Aster2 shall try to persevere with brambles
even if they get me prickles
Sowed some more sweet peas today and also trying the damp kitchen roll method with the seeds that I have had for a while
Brambles... ugh! That is a tough job.
I got to the plot this morning and managed to plant the rose I'd bought about three weeks ago (it's Lady Emma Hamilton), but not before the heavens opened. Rain, hail, thunder and lightning. I didn't mind the rain and hail, but thunderstorms are something else, so I beat a quick retreat. (I don't know when I'm going to get to plant the poor strawberries.)
Slugs don't usually go for my strawberries until they start fruiting.
Did a quick repair today on the shed roof as the wind had torn the felt. Lots of small jobs done before it started to rain. Potted up some dahlias and sowed seeds in the GH.
There'a also a bird nesting in the shed, thought I so one fly out yesterday but didn't think much of it, found the nest today when I was hanging up my tools..
. There was a bundle of straw and stuff with a hole in the middle wedged in the corner near a window. Hope I haven't scared it off, don't think it was there today though.
We get quite alot of wildlife, rabbits, squirels, slow worms, frogs, toads, a robin last year followed me around the plot when I was digging, sometimes sitting just a couple of ft away. Then there's all the bee's and butterflies in the summer. Heard a grasshopper on another plot last year, was ever so envious, I hadn't heard one of those in this country since I was a child, and then about Aug/Sept time heard one on my plot
Aha, OK, thanks. I still haven't been able to plant them, after the storm last night everything will be too wet. At least I've ordered the mats now.
I remember grashoppers from my childhood too, it was always the sound I associated with summer. We had wildflower meadows then.
I always associated grass hoppers with the summer holidays. Our house backed onto what would now be called green belt land.
There was a field for horses to graze and the grass would be cut in the summer, we would build dens in the hay bales. We'd also catch grasshoppers, the winner was the one who caught the most.
By the time I was born the allotments from the war were well over grown There's nothing left now apart from houses and the 'big tree', must be under a consevation order, when I drive past I often look up and think my name's scratched at the top of that.
Guess that's progress...
Went to the plot today lots of damage done to plots few sheds over, the winds in that storm was really strong
On my plot I had to cover the pallets over and lost one of my signs some where can't find it and had to push back the stake on the apple tree
Did some clearing up of the rubbish in the brambles lots of bags of rubbish and still could fill more - did get rained on today
There were grass hoppers all over my plot last year so lots of sounds
Aster2 good your ordered the strawberry mats
Zoomer44 birds nesting in the shed that's nice hope you see them again, saw a couple of magpies on some ones plot in the horse poo collecting material for a nest
Went to the allotment plot today and done more cutting of brambles for a few hours and well those
brambles have been chopped down so now it is just the big piles of brambles to cut up - one lot for garden bin and other lot for a fire sometime, also the mound of rubbish to clear and remove got four bags so far
spotted someones shed in bits on the floor not good
Aster2 nice looking rose
Anyone any new peeps on the allotment plots
Zoomer44, ditto grashoppers = summer holidays.
Gardengirl, congratulations on the brambles!
scroggin, I wouldn't want to work with glass, you have my respect.
I've finally sowed a lot of various seeds. Will have to go to a GC tomorrow to get more sowing compost. Any excuse to go to a GC is a good thing!