We decided to show mercy to our remaining forks by building raised beds in the concrete zone and filling them with the soft crumbly mound of compost piled high in the Clampetts yard section of the plot.
Lynn spent the best part of two days trying to clear this area of unmentionable crudiness. Hundreds...
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It was our first weekend on the plot.
As I arrived I plunged my fork into the ground, Scott of the Antarctic stylee. It twanged as it hit the surface, bounced back 2 metres and propagated an agonising wave up my arm. I started hopping around, whining about stress fractures and the general impossibleness of...
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We went to examine a vacant plot last week and came away having signed on the dotted line. I see before me a winter of heavy digging in an attempt to tame yet another South West London allotment.
It’s only two years ago that I took over the plot at North Sheen. That plot was...
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Most of this months pictures were the result of one weekend’s endeavours.
A two pronged assault during a sunny break in the middle of the month proved to be an excellent opportunity for pulling the plot together.
Weeds were pulled, beans were planted and my resident constructionist re-built last years rather poorly looking greenhouse. The plot...
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Here’s an almost wordless month in pictures update. I’m so far behind that I’m cramming 3 months into one mosaic and as I didn’t seem to make it to the plot much in those first 3 months, there isn’t a lot to say.
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Life dried off a little for December and I managed to get down to the plot quite a few times.
The grotty dark nights resulted in a couple of torchlit digging sessions but I also found myself shamed into a day of weeding after passing by on the train and noticing the big blocks off lush green...
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October and November were such washout months that I hardly got to the plot at all. When I did go down, the place seemed just a little too grim for photography and so here I am, left with a tiny handful of snaps with which to rustle up a double ”month in pictures” montage.
The winter...
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It was a bit of a struggle to find enough for photos for Septembers month in pictures. What a wash out it’s been. I’ve hardly made it to the plot at all this month.
I’ve started saving a few seeds and amazingly some of them have even dried out enough for storing. In the specimen...
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Despite the grotty wet weather, August still flourished and I spent almost all of my gardening time harvesting crops. Can’t complain about that but it does mean I failed to sow any overwintering crops, hopefully September sown spring cabbages will still be productive.
Blight inevitably struck towards the middle of the month so I pulled...
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Blimey, July is a busy month.
I’ve been on the plot almost every day and yet don’t seem to have done anything constructive. The time is taken up by watering and picking crops (not that I’m complaining), with precious little time for making any last minute sowings.
I haven’t had much time for blogging recently so...
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