I was trying to beat the rain this morning to upgrade the cloche, somewhat unsuccessfully as you’ll see below.
Category: Video
Allotment Update 4th July 2015
A quick allotment update, shorter due to other events this week.
Allotment Video Update for May 30th 2015 (And Journal Notes)
(Journal Notes for 30th May 2015)
Watched by an adult fox this morning as I walked the dogs. He was on the rugby pitch as I entered the field, and stayed there until we were about 50m away. Then he moved back to the edge of the scrub, in the long grass, always keeping about 50m away and seemingly curious of us rather than afraid. One of the other dog walkers feeds them each morning so they seemingly become quite tolerant of the early morning dog walkers! No pics, because I left my phone in the car overnight and the battery was flat.
Off to the plot afterwards Temp +2 – +22 °C, since last Saturday. Recorded a video for upload later and then began digging over last years Kalle and Purple S.B. This is to make way for leeks and poss more radish and lettuce. Lovely morning and plot is looking great if a little weed covered in places. Thistles and other perennials seem to be a particular problem this year.
Have been well supported by a Robin this morning while I’ve been weeding. He’s very tolerant of me or focussed on what grubs and bugs I’m exposing and at one stage I was having to be careful that I didn’t tread on him he was so close.
Went back home for lunch and then after walking the dogs came back down to the plot to plant the 40 leeks that were delivered this morning. There were actually 48. I think the plot is now probably full, assuming that the courgettes come through, but there’s no sign of them yet! Took a moment to enjoy the plot before heading for home.
Allotment Video Update 2nd May 2015
A few days late due to some upload issues, but latest video post below. Thanks for watching.
Allotment Update 11th April 2015
It was raining when I made it down to the allotment this morning, as the video above explains. The rain did clear relatively quickly but I didn’t add to the video. I did manage to get some weeding done, and get the plum tree in the ground in the fruit bed. I also managed to sow some more seeds, including; turnip, beetroot and carrot.
The carrot I split across a couple of different methods to try something new. Some I sowed normally into the ground as I have done many, many times. I also sowed some others in some drainpipes which I filled with a mixture of sand and fine compost. I think these will hopefully grow longer and straighter, and as they are in drainpipes which are slightly raised off of the ground might be less susceptible to the low flying carrot-root fly. A bit of an experiment for this year so we’ll see how it goes.
UPDATE: I had to upload the video again.
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