Wet
As just about every other allotment blogger has said, it's been a rubbish few weeks with little gardening, little growing and lots of grumbling at the weather. Stop raining!
The plot appears to be surviving my neglect for the last couple of weeks - foot is now back to a normal size thankfully - and some things have even grown. The beans have shot up after I retied them a couple of weeks ago, should be laden with beans by the end of the summer.
A quick apology is needed for the quality of the photos, last nights trip was meant to a 5 minute visit to drop off kitchen waste for the compost heap. Of course this didn't happen, the potatoes that hadn't been earthed up for a while looked so much less happy than those that had, so I was forced to stop and do some digging. The lack of planning meant I didn't bring my camera, and so all the photos are from She Who Does Not Dig's mobile. Worse than poor photos I managed to destroy my shoes. Instead of nice solid gardening shoes I was in a pair of flimsy things, which didn't enjoy the work one bit. The sole is now in 2 distinct pieces. Ooops.
Due to the many interruptions to my beautiful and ambitious plans for the plot I haven't been able to dig the last of the 4 patches destined for vegetable production, so I bit the bullet, bought some matting and covered it up before it turned into a weed seed factory.
I had been resisting doing so but now I have I'm pleased with the result, it's not as ugly as expected and the whole plot looks much more under control now. More veg patch, less wildness area. I'll return later in the week with a photo of the whole patch.
And once more, STOP RAINING!
The plot appears to be surviving my neglect for the last couple of weeks - foot is now back to a normal size thankfully - and some things have even grown. The beans have shot up after I retied them a couple of weeks ago, should be laden with beans by the end of the summer.
A quick apology is needed for the quality of the photos, last nights trip was meant to a 5 minute visit to drop off kitchen waste for the compost heap. Of course this didn't happen, the potatoes that hadn't been earthed up for a while looked so much less happy than those that had, so I was forced to stop and do some digging. The lack of planning meant I didn't bring my camera, and so all the photos are from She Who Does Not Dig's mobile. Worse than poor photos I managed to destroy my shoes. Instead of nice solid gardening shoes I was in a pair of flimsy things, which didn't enjoy the work one bit. The sole is now in 2 distinct pieces. Ooops.
Due to the many interruptions to my beautiful and ambitious plans for the plot I haven't been able to dig the last of the 4 patches destined for vegetable production, so I bit the bullet, bought some matting and covered it up before it turned into a weed seed factory.
I had been resisting doing so but now I have I'm pleased with the result, it's not as ugly as expected and the whole plot looks much more under control now. More veg patch, less wildness area. I'll return later in the week with a photo of the whole patch.
And once more, STOP RAINING!
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