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Frost makes a comeback!
Our latest allotment trip turned out very productive I was a little surprised and slightly downhearted to open the curtains this morning to see everything glittering in frost. I had planned to go to the allotment and a little bit of freezing wasn’t going to stop me! I filled up the flask to keep Dearest…
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Big thaw = Plot progress!
At last we got back to the allotment I was very happy to get back to the plot today after all the ice had finally melted. It’s been hard to see everyone else on YouTube working on their plots or gardens and sowing their seeds and I haven’t been able to get through a wall…
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Bird Fail=Success!
Stick with me and this will all make sense. We are in the middle of some cold weather but tonight we are to expect as low as -10C (that’s 14F). I was looking out the window and saw some birds were trying to get what little seeds were left on the feeder so I thought…
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Why my allotment gardening is on ice at the moment
I still have a lot of preparations to make on the allotment plot to get it ready for Spring. The Christmas period usually puts things on hold for a little while even though I keep seeing people on YouTube with their Boxing Day or New Year’s Day videos (I don’t know how they manage that).…
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A strange thing going on in the garden
I took pictures! I walked past one of my tubs the other day and had to do a second take – did I just see what I thought I’d seen? Isn’t this December? We haven’t had Christmas yet have we? Oh so many questions! The cause of all this was the rather sudden and unexpected…
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Harvesting in December?!
I wondered if I could harvest 5 different veg from the allotment (after the storm). We went up to the allotment today (Sunday) and I had 2 jobs in mind: to check for damage after the storm and to see if I could get a harvest of 5 types of veg. Well, the good news…
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No snow or aliens on the allotment today
I’ve heard the aliens have landed, the rest of the country is 10 feet deep in snow and we can expect to be nuked at any moment – my preferred course of action is to go to the allotment and leave them to it. I managed to get a surprising amount of work done today,…
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Tick this allotment job off the list!
I have to share some good news with you. We were on a break this week so made it up to the allotment 3 times – that’s a lot for us, especially at this time of the year. We’ve been working on one side and spreading manure all over it. This was how it looked…
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There is a mystery afoot
We have a garden mystery which remains, as yet, unsolved. We have a bird feeding station in the back garden and I love seeing the birds coming to it and making a wonderful mess, scattering seeds all over the place which sprout and grow into the most beautiful field of weeds which I then have…
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It’s manure time!
I’m not joking and that isn’t code for anything – I’ve been shovelling lots of the stuff. During our latest allotment visit, we finally got the beans down, the last bit of weeding more or less done on one side and the manure shovelling started! Dearest Son dealt with the beans and a lot of…
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Getting the garden polytunnel ready for Winter
It’s that time of year already so let me show you what I managed to do. Regular readers will know I got the polytunnel for the garden very late into the season so I don’t count this as a ‘normal’ year for it. Having said that, things have been attempting to grow and there is…
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Mental Boost on the Plot
Gardening isn’t just about the vegetables and flowers. We had a pretty short visit to the plot this week and even though I hadn’t been up for over a week, it wasn’t looking too drastic. I was needing the time there. I don’t know if it’s the clock change or the temperature noticeably dropping but…
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