This post is way late AGAIN! It’s last weeks update, I’ll do another one on Sunday because we’ve done loads since then too..
Wow, well, that’s the wedding done then. And if you don’t believe me, here’s the proof:[flickr]photo:5753597605[/flickr] [flickr]photo:5754155572[/flickr]
The wedding also gave us chance to test an important question. What happens when you leave an allotment for 3 weeks? Well the official answer is that if you have a very kind and helpful allotment neighbour (thanks Bob!) not much! Bob kept everything growing the greenhouse, quite frankly much better than we would have, which only left a huge amount of potting on to do. And I mean huge – basically everything was ready to move on. Cue almost a full day in the greenhouse and we have all our tomatoes, aubergines and regular chili plants in their final places.
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We’ve also had a huge growth spurt from the asparagus which we thought we had killed off last year. We might have less spears, but they are much healthier (this is a relative concept, they are rubbish compared to Bob’s, but at least they are still growing). I think with asparagus you can technically get a crop on the third year, but there really is no way ours will be ready till at least year 4. Ah well.[flickr]photo:5787886538[/flickr]
We set up the netting hoops and planted out sprouts, cabbages and cauliflowers (about 6 or 7 of each), and sowed half a row each of turnips and swede (which we hardly eat any of last year, but well, it’s an allotment, thats what happens). [flickr]photo:5787885552[/flickr] .
Spending so much time there, we managed to cross a long term thing off the list – following on from Sharon’s work on her plot we decided to deal with the bit of ground between our plots. Fences are always a bit of a nightmare area because weeds get between them and are difficult to really get in and deal with, so we didn’t deal with them. We covered them up with membrane and plonked a load of chippings on them. The weeds might well grow through but hopefully a lot less vigorously than before! [flickr]photo:5787330411[/flickr]
Oh and also, I found two toads. Here is one of them: [flickr]photo:5787886956[/flickr]
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