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Sunday October 28th 2012
Weather: Cool and overcast Plot time: 10-30-12.00 3.30-5.00 Continued to clear the bramble and other vegetative waste from the rear flower bed and cut it for the bonfire. The space is fairly large and the brambles have grown extraordinarily well this year so it took some doing
Saturday October 27th 2012
Weather: Overcast and cool Plot time: 10.00 - 2.00 P.M. Spent the day unloading and stacking wood for the communal bonfire we have annually on the plot. This is the only time we are allowed to have a fire so as well as being a social event fueled by warm food and a few drinks it is our chance to get rid of all of that awkward non compostable waste we accumulate on our allotments. A couple of our plot holders are able get wood from their work places so we always have a few lorry loads to help us on our way. Started to clear the back flowerbed of brambles and cut the stalks into pieces and loaded them on to the bonfire
Sunday October 21st 2012
Weather: Sunny and hot but foggy and cooler at sunrise and sunset Plot time: 1.30 - 4.00 P.M Continued to dig up potatoes Pulled some leeks. They have grown really well this year. Thick stemmed and tall. Cut herbs to take home Took the last of the outdoor cucumber and composted the remains Continued weeding
Sunday 14th October 2012
Jobs Completed:
Continued to dig up potatoes. We still have some Valour maincrop sitting happily in the ground. Cut back asparagus fronds that had become dry and brittle Put the spent tomato compost on the asparagus beds as a mulch Cut back sea kale Weeded the strawberry beds. We keep finding teasels, creeping buttercups, dandelions and couch grass making their way in. Cut the remainder of the courgettes and marrows. Took them home to store. Cut lettuce to eat Cleared the greenhouse of the last of the tomatoes Added vegetable waste to the compost and agitated it Continued to weed all over
Friday October 5th 2012
Plot Time: 14.30 - 16.30
Weather: Overcast but warm
Jobs completed:
Continued weeding and clearing the beds. We aren't allowed to light fires on our allotment apart form once a year due to our residential location. With bonfire night approaching we are trying to clear as much bramble and non compostable material with the intention of buring it on the day
Sunday September 30th 2012
Plot Time: 11.00 - 17.00
Weather: Overcast with showers in the afternoon. Mild.
Jobs completed:
As predicted, we spent the entire day weeding!
Saturday September 29th 2012
Plot Time: 16.00 - 17.30
Weather: Cloudy with sunshine. Cooler later in the day
Jobs completed:
Weeding, weeding and more weeding! Holidays are great but you sure have a lot of tidying up to do when you get home. There will be plenty more work to do tomorrow!
Picked salad leaves and tomatoes and outdoor cucumbers for tea
Saturday September 15th 2012
Weather: Cloudy with sunshine later in the day.
No plot time today as we have gone on holiday for a week to Cornwall
Part of the beautiful gardens at St Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall. Unfortunately, every time i have visited the gardens have been closed to the public. I would very much like to take a walk round at some point. Gardens were only viewable from the terraces above.
The wonderful Hayle beach where we stayed for the week. There is lots of sea campion on the dunes around this beach some seed of which we have taken in the hope of cultivating some. It is much more compact than normal campion with a lovely hardy leaf and shorter flower stems. The flowers are pale creamy white
The merry maidens standing stones near Porthcurno. Whilst in Cornwall we went looking for sloe berries as the harvest in Yorkshire is practically none existent this year. The heavy rains at blossom time seem to have prevented pollination and the sloe bushes that have always been very generous to us in previous years have yielded very little this season. We weren't much luckier in Cornwall so our gifts of sloe gin this Christmas may have to be replaced with blackberry brandy as we have been inundated with those!
The amazing Minack Theatre in Porthcurno built by the incredible Rowena Cade. The gardens here are also fantastic and well worth a visit!
Saturday September 8th 2012
Plot Time: 10.00 - 13.00
Weather: Cloudy morning with sunshine later in the day. Mild.
Today is the annual show at the allotment. We have a 'fun day' including a vegetable and flower show. Everyone is welcome to enter and all of the produce is auctioned off at the end of the day, proceeds of which all go to the allotment. We are still raising money for out new toilet so any money made today will go towards that.
Jobs completed:
Checked over the vegetables still growing and cut and prepared them for the show. Some vegetables such as the potatoes and onions have been out a while and just needed cleaning and preparing.
We entered the following into the show:
A small posy of Asters. The judge highly recommended these.
Our largest remaining cucumber. We won second prize for this
In the 'Other Veg' category we entered a fennel. This also won second prize
Onions - we didn't get a prize for these as we didn't string the tops as per judging requirements. We have done this in previous years but the heavy rains at the time of lifting started to rot the stems so we cut them so they would store better
Potatoes. We won second prize for these too.
We didn't enter a top tray this year preferring to enter into individual categories instead
Sunday September 2nd 2012
Fennel
Outdoor cucumber - Marketmore
Butternut squashes
Purple aster
Plot Time: 11.00 - 17.30
Weather: Cloudy morning and a hot sunny afternoon. Temperature in high 20s
Jobs completed:
Weeded the potatoe bed, around the squashes, courgettes, cucumbers, asters and the salad bed
Weeded the celery, sweetcorn and pea bed
Dug out the broadbean stalks and composted them, dug over the ground and planted some more leeks that we started off in the greenhouse
Watered the greenhouse tomatoes and basil and cucumbers
Picked cucumbers and tomatoes for dinner. Picked a mixed salad of rocket, little gem, lambs lettuce, spinach lazio, misticanza, land cress, tree spinach, basil and sorrel
Saturday September 1st 2012
Plot Time: 12.00 - 15.30
Weather: Cloudy morning and a hot sunny afternoon and evening
Jobs completed:
Weeded the potato bed
Weeded the strawberry bed and potted on the runners into little pots in situ
The comfrey has elephantitis at the moment, leaves as large as gunnera and stems stretching horizontally like ivy. We cut it all today and put it into the compost
Picked salad leaves, cucumbers and tomatoes for dinner. Our salads are currently comprising of rocket, little gem, lambs lettuce, spinach lazio, misticanza, land cress, tree spinach, basil and sorrel
Asters looking neon in the rain today
Saturday August 18th 2012
Plot Time: 15.00 - 17.00
Weather: Overcast and warm in the morning with the cloud clearing throughout the day. Hot sunny evening.
The purple sprouting broccoli we planted out a few weeks back is looking very sturdy and growing well. The leeks have all started to thicken up a treat too.
Jobs Completed:
Watered the greenhouse tomatoes, cucumbers and basil. Watered the outside courgettes, squashes, cucumbers and asters
Weeded the leeks
Dug some potatoes for dinner. Picked some salad leaves - lambs lettuce, rocket, land cress, little gem and spinach
Harvested the first of our tomatoes today. We found a few red minibels, alicantes and big reds. They didn’t make it further than the greenhouse. Eaten in a few seconds!
We have started to collect some seed from the flowers we have had growing in the flower beds at the plot. Today we collected some sweet william seed. We generally shake some on to the ground around the existing plant and then take some to store and sow in the spring. Sweet william is such a good value plant giving plenty of cut flowers in season and providing good ground cover the rest of the year.
Thursday August 16th 2012
Plot Time: 18.00 - 19.00
Weather: Warm and muggy
The asters are really coming into their own right now having had a good amount of rain and sunshine. They seem fairly long stemmed so we are hoping to be able to cut some flowers fairly soon. They are a mixture of bright pinks and purples
Jobs completed:
Watered the tomatoes and cucumber and basil in the greenhouse
Watered the squashes, courgettes and cucumbers outside
Picked a cucumber for dinner
Saturday August 11th 2012
Plot Time: 11.00 - 15.00
Weather: Overcast and warm with rain later in the day
Jobs completed:
Harvested the rest of the onions and the shallots. Hung them in the shed to dry off
Weeded the vegetable beds and cut back the grass on our borders by hand. We had asked to use the strimmer today but discovered that there had been a break in during the week and both of our strimmers were taken. What a great gift during national allotment week!
Harvested some salad leaves, spinach, spring onions, cucumbers and herbs for dinner
Turned the rest of the compost
Watered the greenhouse
Sunday August 5th 2012
Plot Time: 13.00 - 16.00
Weather: Overcast and warm with the odd torrential downpour. The weather this week has for the most part been warm and dry but the rain showers have become more frequent as the week has progressed
Jobs completed:
Harvested the onions. We have noticed in this rain that some of the larger bulbs have started to split. As it was raining so hard after digging them up we were only able to put them in the greenhouse ready to be hung. Weeded and dug over the rest of the bed
Watered the greenhouse
Picked our first cucumber. We have grown marketmore and have some growing inside and out. The outdoor plant has the largest fruit so we will be looking to bring th eothers outside soon.
Picked a large range of salad leaves - little gem, lambslettuce, spinach, land cress, rocket and some spring onions for dinner
Picked some raspberries
Cucumbers
Sunday July 22nd 2012
Plot Time: 15.30 - 18.30
Weather: Hot and sunny with some cloud cover in the morning
Jobs completed:
Spent most of our time weeding the vegetable beds today as well as picking lots of produce for dinner. We made a broadbean risotto tonight with fresh broadbeans, tender mangetout, garlic, chives, onion, spring onion, rosemary and sage from the plot. it was lovely!
Peas
Basil
Sweetcorn
French beans
Courgettes