The allotment so far this year has been about a very wet winter (which saw the demise of my early onion sets), and then very cold nights and late frosts. I think we’ve had cold nights well into June, which has made it really difficult to get plants established, and there hasn’t really been much to show, until now at least.
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Allotment January 5th 2013
Harvested parsnips and sprouts, not bad about two meals worth.
Weeded and rough dug ground they were in, still too wet to dig properly.
Doesn’t look like over-wintering onion sets have survived the wet weather.
Retied raspberry canes were string had broken.
Splitting Time Between Allotment and Writing
If you follow me on twitter or know me in real life, you’ll know that next weekend I’m heading off to Bristol for CrimeFest. Consequently this means that I’ve been trying to get all the work on the allotment and in the garden that I would normally do in two weekends, squeezed into one.
Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, as to be honest leaving things for a week doesn’t normally cause too many problems. Having said that, when I went down to the allotment yesterday I noticed that my gooseberry plants have quite a bit of fruit on them already, and there’s a chance that if I didn’t cover them up I could loose the crop to the birds.
Birds have an uncanny sense of knowing exactly when the fruit is at it’s perfect moment of ripeness, and then manage to strip a plant clean without so much as a second look.
So I decided that I would net the fruit bushes before next weekend, otherwise I might be too late, and miss out on this years crop. I suspect I won’t, but am not taking any chances!
Vimeo Weekend Project – Local Tour
This weekends Vimeo Weekend Project’s task was a relatively simple one:
“Make a 1 – 2 minute documentary-style video showing us something local. You must introduce yourself on camera. Remember, just because it’s a documentary, doesn’t mean it can’t be funny or creative!”
As many will know I frequently do “Allotment Video Updates”, so the tour route was an easy one. As I was woken up by a poorly dog at 2am, and then again at 4am, I got a very early start!
The biggest problem in the end was editing down the footage I shot to be under two minutes. I think I probably had about 5 minutes worth if I’d used everything, so a lot was put to one side.
Local Tour – The Gillies Allotments from tontowilliams on Vimeo.
Of course given some of the shots I was trying to take, there were also quite a few out-takes, and that made a second longer video.
Behind the Scenes and Outakes from Vimeo Weekend Project Local Tour from tontowilliams on Vimeo.
Electronic Scrapbook 