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I've written blogs before about water collection and storage, but not for a long time. A couple of things have come along recently to prompt me to revisit it as a subject. One was an article in The Garden, about water butts. What particularly caught my attention was the observation that an average roof could…
It was April 1st 2013 that I first took on an allotment, plot 6. In August 2014 my employment came to an abrupt end and I have a photograph from 11th September 2014 showing my second plot with the grass yellowing, presumably having been sprayed with weedkiller a week or so earlier. I took it…
The area between my new tunnel and the end of the plot has largely been abandoned to nettles for the last four years or more. Now that I'm giving up my second plot, I cannot afford to have such wasted space so I had to grasp the nettle, absolutely literally, and bring it back into…
There are things that are definitely not better late than never, Covid being one of them. I have it; I don't like it. I've spent a fair bit of this week on my allotment and almost none in the garden. It's looking increasingly autumnal, to a degree that is all the more noticeable for spending…
Friday evening has come round again and it's time to put finger to keyboard and knock out another Six on Saturday. Should I be concerned that today is Friday 13th? I'm not, whether I should be or not. The temperature dipped to 3.8°C last night, which is pretty chilly for Cornwall in September, but looks…
OK, let's keep this brief. The allotment post I did a week ago was the first since October 2022, a gap of nearly two years. The seeds I reported on in the tunnel last week are growing apace and I have planted out small lettuce plants beside them. Three have been eaten by slugs but…
September and I did a fairly quick whizz round the garden snapping away, thinking it was all in a bit of a downward spiral and now I look through the pictures I have at least 15 things I could put in. Opening the garden to visitors would entail a huge amount of hacking stuff back…
Sometimes with vegetable gardening you get in a bit of a rut, repeating what you did the year before, dropping a crop because it's repeatedly unsuccessful or you don't ever seem to eat it. It starts to get a bit boring. I had two plots, one of which I only took on because I needed…
Continue reading ➞ Allotment shenanigans, 5th September 2024
I chose yesterday to get the sheet on my tunnel. The weather forecast was for warm sunny weather with very little wind and so it turned out. It all went reasonably well, though as with all these sorts of things you're learning as you go along and would do it differently and probably rather better…
My sixth item last week was a picture of a pile of packages that when put together will be a new tunnel on my allotment. Progress this week has been patchy, with weather and lack of the right tools slowing me down somewhat. The garden in the meantime is running riot, or going to seed,…
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