Going early to allotment tomorrow tool sharpening people will be at back of allotment shop need to go to the shop too, so I will try and get some pictures of my plot then
some of my purple majesty potatoes are chitting like mad need to dig the bed in the garden and get them planted soon
Ginagibbs I guess ask if any plots available - if you wanting land defo ask your neighbour if he not tending all the plot if you can have a bit of his land and for that he can have some of the produce
Fruitcake good you managed to do a bit on your other plot
Here are the pics for you all to see, went to the plot yesterday morning was a overcast day managed to get the lawn mower blade sharpened - GWRS it is handy having them sharpen bits at the plot - brought potato fertilizer in shop
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The brambles were coming right over the plot so done some cutting back, don't mind having some as using as a screen and they tasted good too
Found the plot number edge of plot - which was hidden in brambles
Here is a wider pic lots of bits of rubbish to clear found another golf ball and few footballs, wooden fence thing, concrete bits and tyre planter
One of the bonfires - had 3 cause of the amount of brambles and filled the garden waste bin with the green bramble bits
Here is the tyre planter, I spoke to the site rep and he said it will be ok - yeah to plant it so I may well keep it on plot or if not have in garden - got to clean it up yet
Trial bed dug a bit once looks as if it needs another dig
Dug over the bed for potatoes today in garden will plant them soon, put up new net cloche from Aldi ok to put up
When we looked at the plot on Saturday after a bit noticed my pallet piles was a mess small pallets on floor and half pile of pallets missing - so don't know who has took it - told the lot in the shop
I have had to make and laminate a few signs for my plot to stop people taking my wood and also gone and got paint just need to mark my stuff - that was from Monday to Saturday there one time then not
Gardengirl , missing Palletts very annoying , don't known what go surgest ! Could paint name on but that very time consuming and probably won't stop them being stolen !
Gardengirl, wow, great job dealing with all those brambles! I really like the cloche, too. It's really annoying with the pallets!
I finished digging in the grazing rye and dug out some more horrible perennial weeds from another patch. I hope I'll finish clearing the plot this spring.
I sowed some grass on a future path about two weeks ago, it still hasn't germinated. I guess I should water it.
I went to RHS Wisley yesterday, they had a Spring Plant Fair. Very nice, and I found a stand with exotic plants and wanted to get some for my patio, but the vendors wouldn't take cards and I had no cash on me. There's no cashpoint around there for miles, but the gift shop does cashback, so I went there and back again (it's a long way and I was very tired). I was so excited when I chose my three plants! I complimented the vendors on their stand, questioned them about minute details of care of my precious plants, and then I took the bag with the plants and made to leave, when the vendor said "That'll be 15 pounds." I handed over the money and apologised profusely, said how tired I was, and that I'd never ever ever try not to pay and the vendor was very polite, but I have no idea whether he believed me or not. Oh well. I hope that by the time the plants grow nice and big I'll have forgotten the episode. (More likely I'll recall it every time I look at them!)
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Put up for couple of hours put some more posts up ready for news summer rasberry bed , repared fence and put in couple of gravel board edges
Its our AGM on sunday morning in car park and also rent day , so will have to get up early
Ginigibbs , we have lots of half plots on site , infact that's what I started with , worth asking
Going early to allotment tomorrow tool sharpening people will be at back of allotment shop need to go to the shop too, so I will try and get some pictures of my plot then
some of my purple majesty potatoes are chitting like mad need to dig the bed in the garden and get them planted soon
Ginagibbs I guess ask if any plots available - if you wanting land defo ask your neighbour if he not tending all the plot if you can have a bit of his land and for that he can have some of the produce
Fruitcake good you managed to do a bit on your other plot
Would love to see pics Gg. Better luck next time Ginagibbs.
Tool Sharpening would be great , when I first moved hear 25 years a old chap used to come around each year in a battered old van and do sharpening
Allotment shears are a bit blunt , tried using a file not very good
Hello all , been to plot today and paid rent for year £55 which included £5 for allotment association
We cleared last years chard & spinach , now in compost bin
O/H panted some more shallots and finished off posts and wire ready for new raspberry bed
one of the plot holders got hold of a lot of gravel ( a huge amount ) and free to help your self so got 3 barrow loads , little bonus
Lots of little jobs done as well as ever always thing to do , plot looking pretty good ready for when we come back of hols
Hope it is going well for you all
Here are the pics for you all to see, went to the plot yesterday morning was a overcast day managed to get the lawn mower blade sharpened - GWRS it is handy having them sharpen bits at the plot - brought potato fertilizer in shop
Pictures
The brambles were coming right over the plot so done some cutting back, don't mind having some as using as a screen and they tasted good too
Found the plot number edge of plot - which was hidden in brambles
Here is a wider pic lots of bits of rubbish to clear found another golf ball and few footballs, wooden fence thing, concrete bits and tyre planter
One of the bonfires - had 3 cause of the amount of brambles and filled the garden waste bin with the green bramble bits
Here is the tyre planter, I spoke to the site rep and he said it will be ok - yeah to plant it so I may well keep it on plot or if not have in garden - got to clean it up yet
Trial bed dug a bit once looks as if it needs another dig
Dug over the bed for potatoes today in garden will plant them soon, put up new net cloche from Aldi ok to put up
When we looked at the plot on Saturday after a bit noticed my pallet piles was a mess small pallets on floor and half pile of pallets missing - so
don't know who has took it - told the lot in the shop
I have had to make and laminate a few signs for my plot to stop people taking my wood and also gone and got paint just need to mark my stuff - that was from Monday to Saturday there one time then not
Gardengirl , missing Palletts very annoying , don't known what go surgest ! Could paint name on but that very time consuming and probably won't stop them being stolen !
Plot looking good , lots of bramble
Gardengirl, wow, great job dealing with all those brambles! I really like the cloche, too. It's really annoying with the pallets!
I finished digging in the grazing rye and dug out some more horrible perennial weeds from another patch. I hope I'll finish clearing the plot this spring.
I sowed some grass on a future path about two weeks ago, it still hasn't germinated. I guess I should water it.
I went to RHS Wisley yesterday, they had a Spring Plant Fair. Very nice, and I found a stand with exotic plants and wanted to get some for my patio, but the vendors wouldn't take cards and I had no cash on me. There's no cashpoint around there for miles, but the gift shop does cashback, so I went there and back again (it's a long way and I was very tired). I was so excited when I chose my three plants! I complimented the vendors on their stand, questioned them about minute details of care of my precious plants, and then I took the bag with the plants and made to leave, when the vendor said "That'll be 15 pounds."
I handed over the money and apologised profusely, said how tired I was, and that I'd never ever ever try not to pay and the vendor was very polite, but I have no idea whether he believed me or not. Oh well. I hope that by the time the plants grow nice and big I'll have forgotten the episode. (More likely I'll recall it every time I look at them!)
Scroggins must be nice to have allottment so close , like idea of collie line
Aster glad you had a good time at Wisley