Posted in Sowing and planting on 27 March 2007 | No Comments »
We planted a dozen Bunyards Exhibition broad beans in cardboard toilet roll tubes this morning. It seems to be a popular method amongst allotment bloggers and we thought we’d give it a try.
The artichoke seeds are beginning to germinate also!
Posted in Harvesting, Sowing and planting, Vegetables on 25 March 2007 | No Comments »
After yesterday’s freezing winds and slate grey skies, the clocks went forward an hour to British summer time, and warmth and sunlight returned to the allotment. We had popped down just to take kitchen scraps to the compost bin but before we knew it a couple of hours had gone by.
We picked our first turnips [...]
Posted in Shopping, Sowing and planting on 24 March 2007 | 1 Comment »
The day began with an attempt to procure some manure for a crown of rhubarb, one of several much appreciated gifts brought by parents - more on those gifts as we plant them.
(There is a more obvious title for this post, but I’ll reserve my four-letter words for those moments when the slugs have done [...]
Posted in Sowing and planting, Vegetables on 18 March 2007 | No Comments »
We saw ‘artichokers’ on a pizzeria menu in Modena last year and bought these seeds at an open-air market in Gubbio for an absurdly cheap price.
I think I should have started these about six weeks ago - according to books and various sources, we shouldn’t expect much of a crop in their first season, though [...]
Posted in Sowing and planting, The plot on 18 March 2007 | 1 Comment »
The weeding today was yet more strenuous than Saturday’s. We dug up as many nettles and chopped down as many brambles as we could manage from the area next to the shed. This is directly by a railway line and the more we cleared, the more rubbish emerged. Mixed in with shreds of blue plastic [...]
Posted in The plot on 17 March 2007 | No Comments »
Today we dug up lots of these from a particularly overgrown patch of the plot that we didn’t cultivate at all last year.
This was the only one I got out cleanly - most of the others were larger and I ended up cutting through the roots in the process of forking them out.
The annual weeds [...]
Posted in The plot on 15 March 2007 | 2 Comments »
We inherited the shed from the previous plotholders, or (more likely) their previous plotholders.
Last summer we didn’t use it at all, preferring to store our gardening tools in the secure communal shed on the site.
From the front it looks sort of OK and isn’t as homemade as some of the sheds on local allotment sites (made of old wardrobes with front doors stuck on and the like).
Here it is.
The problem is inside.
The middle of the floor has caved in, the roof [...]
Posted in Sowing and planting, Welcome on 11 March 2007 | No Comments »
Welcome to our allotment diary. At the outset of our second year on the plot (the first full one - the plot became ours in mid June 2006) and having got a bit carried away with the seed catalogue, we thought it might be useful to keep a record of what we plant and how we do it.
More about the plot itself [...]
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