If you manage to bore all your friends with talk of your allotment then eventually you will find a person who no longer want there greenhouse. Here's were the fun begins. Usually the deal is if you can take it down its yours. This is fair if a little time consuming and fiddly. Free greenhouses are obviously the best kind, less landfill, social interaction and free growing space.
Archie the plant mangler has planted marigolds and broccoli today so hopefully they will bring us future joy and dinner.
mares tail is getting all leafy and hey ho on the weeding goes...
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Pea murdering bugs, seeds and seddlings and the constant dig for victory.
Managed to get a few hours in today down t'patch.
I have witnessed sum burnt broccoli seedlings...I have offered them love and water and await results. Poor things. The parsnips and are breaking through and the carrot babies are springing up mostly in the carrot patch. Mares tail is still the evil weed of the patch and is generally enemy number one...however...
I have a new menace to report, the dastardly pea weavel!! Da da daaa!
They have murder some peas and heavily munched the rest. I have pea forced down the root of chemicular attack...well they started it!
The fruiting plum (sorry thought it was a cherry in my tired head) has fallen into blossom and is glorious and is taking over from its androgynous neighbour. Got lots done and nothing looks to have changed. Ah well hey hoe and on the weeding goes...
I have witnessed sum burnt broccoli seedlings...I have offered them love and water and await results. Poor things. The parsnips and are breaking through and the carrot babies are springing up mostly in the carrot patch. Mares tail is still the evil weed of the patch and is generally enemy number one...however...
I have a new menace to report, the dastardly pea weavel!! Da da daaa!
They have murder some peas and heavily munched the rest. I have pea forced down the root of chemicular attack...well they started it!
The fruiting plum (sorry thought it was a cherry in my tired head) has fallen into blossom and is glorious and is taking over from its androgynous neighbour. Got lots done and nothing looks to have changed. Ah well hey hoe and on the weeding goes...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Children and Working your land.
How wonderfully idylic it seems to bring fruits of your own seed to the ground you have acquired to grow things with you. To pick up all your weeds, dig over your compost, and be your mini munkins our gardening delight. In reality this is very rarely the case. From time to time they will be your rake fetchers and seed chuckers but often they will be not. My middle son is a digger, seven years have helped him find his true place in our alotment. He will dig usually a large round hole and is training towards tenches, weeding is also a growing skill but aonly in 30 second periods..then usually back to the digging.
The youngest is a mauler of plant babies. He is a path ignorer and constant ground waterer of great repute. He does not descriminate and therefore sometimes does actually water some plants..it makes wellies essential but thats ok. He will often fill the back of his pedla car with soil and woodchip....sometimes even planting a strawberry or two within. He is also a neighbour allotment invader...a boinger on freshly seeded patcheser...quite a challenge to do anything with no. 3 son. We often wanfer and look at birds...this is often better for the back than digging. Maybe he is on the side of the weeds..he is very funny when not imtimidating the plants..I think the tree and rhubarb are probably safely robust.
No. 1 son is past real interest and a bit concerned about icky soil and flies. Thgis can be alittle debilitating when trying to work in our place so he is a shed dweller and no.3 son chaser..to his credit...
In reality time spent alone on your patch can be hugely productive..but the soulk is fed better when company is had..I have allowed myself time to talk to my near enighbours who are always full of good advice..usually slightly doomful..sweetcorn loving badgers being the most worrying but its better..runnning away to the shed is a different matter..this will be dealt with later...
hey ho and on the weeding goes...
The youngest is a mauler of plant babies. He is a path ignorer and constant ground waterer of great repute. He does not descriminate and therefore sometimes does actually water some plants..it makes wellies essential but thats ok. He will often fill the back of his pedla car with soil and woodchip....sometimes even planting a strawberry or two within. He is also a neighbour allotment invader...a boinger on freshly seeded patcheser...quite a challenge to do anything with no. 3 son. We often wanfer and look at birds...this is often better for the back than digging. Maybe he is on the side of the weeds..he is very funny when not imtimidating the plants..I think the tree and rhubarb are probably safely robust.
No. 1 son is past real interest and a bit concerned about icky soil and flies. Thgis can be alittle debilitating when trying to work in our place so he is a shed dweller and no.3 son chaser..to his credit...
In reality time spent alone on your patch can be hugely productive..but the soulk is fed better when company is had..I have allowed myself time to talk to my near enighbours who are always full of good advice..usually slightly doomful..sweetcorn loving badgers being the most worrying but its better..runnning away to the shed is a different matter..this will be dealt with later...
hey ho and on the weeding goes...
Friday, 9 April 2010
So the Wittering begins
I am not entirely convinced by the idea of writing a blog, but at the same time have a little time on my hands and a friend who wants to hear more. So its your fault...you know who you are..
So far we have been give a plot of land approx 25 x8 metres.
It was a bit derelict as Terry who shall be known as the previous tentant or in fact Terry ( as Terry twas his name) had let it become a more naturalist home for pernicious and somewhat unfair weeds, random broken glass, a singular beacon of hope(at least for the plum lovers in the family) a lovely plum tree. Young but established, and will fruit. I do feel resentful of the lack of cooking apples but one must open ones arms to all is there is usable. Being the only real thing of value, not forgetting the strawberry weeds, bloody things get everywhere (glad of this really), the plum tree is great and may at some point be named. We now have a slight problem with plums trees, in that our very beautiful but somewhat sterile flowering plum is feeling deficient. She has great flowers and we have advised her she'll always be the looker of the pair. this is not helped by the bositerous rhurbarb which is starting to threaten to take of the areas around it including her own root space. Our rhubarb is a bit like an alien, I on expecting to find pods with little vege bodies growing under one of the leaves..looking forward to taking custard revenge for its constant planty intimidation.
The peas sweet and pod like are coming on and the badgers have all been scared of by the killer mice..these nibbling rodents are joing my ever growing hitlist of natures friends. I always thought this would be less of a battle vs nature and more of an immersion in it...Hey ho...and on the weeding goes...
So far we have been give a plot of land approx 25 x8 metres.
It was a bit derelict as Terry who shall be known as the previous tentant or in fact Terry ( as Terry twas his name) had let it become a more naturalist home for pernicious and somewhat unfair weeds, random broken glass, a singular beacon of hope(at least for the plum lovers in the family) a lovely plum tree. Young but established, and will fruit. I do feel resentful of the lack of cooking apples but one must open ones arms to all is there is usable. Being the only real thing of value, not forgetting the strawberry weeds, bloody things get everywhere (glad of this really), the plum tree is great and may at some point be named. We now have a slight problem with plums trees, in that our very beautiful but somewhat sterile flowering plum is feeling deficient. She has great flowers and we have advised her she'll always be the looker of the pair. this is not helped by the bositerous rhurbarb which is starting to threaten to take of the areas around it including her own root space. Our rhubarb is a bit like an alien, I on expecting to find pods with little vege bodies growing under one of the leaves..looking forward to taking custard revenge for its constant planty intimidation.
The peas sweet and pod like are coming on and the badgers have all been scared of by the killer mice..these nibbling rodents are joing my ever growing hitlist of natures friends. I always thought this would be less of a battle vs nature and more of an immersion in it...Hey ho...and on the weeding goes...
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