Gardening/Allotmenting

[Tail End Charlie]

My allotment has an upper class of plot holder. This is what one sometimes turns up in.

A 1917 Ford model T!!

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I force a clump of rhubarb every year (different one each year obs). Well worth doing, gets a crop way in advance and very sweet.

 

[Red17]

First crumble of the year this afternoon. Have thought about forcing but seems to crop early enough without

 

[biggs682]

First session of weeding completed need to get a fair bit more done this weekend along with giving the lawns a trim

 

[Gunk]

First session of wedding completed

Why weren’t we invited?

 

[biggs682]

Trying to work out if we have room without moving a lot of plants etc etc for a 8ft x 6ft greenhouse, I think I know the answer

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Trying to work out if we have room without moving a lot of plants etc etc for a 8ft x 6ft greenhouse, I think I know the answer

Trouble is, as soon as you get an 8x6, you'll want a 10x8, then ... It's like numbers of bikes really.

Joking aside, I used to have a 8x10, which was a really useful size. I think 8x6 is a little small tbh.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

It's that time of year when I nervously look at my plants and see which have succumbed over the winter. I think my olive trees have had it, along with a leptospermum, two loropetalas and possibly a couple of bay trees, but I'll give them a further chance. Luckily everything else seems to be coming into bud. I do get some biting east winds.

 

[biggs682]

Trouble is, as soon as you get an 8x6, you'll want a 10x8, then ... It's like numbers of bikes really.

Joking aside, I used to have a 8x10, which was a really useful size. I think 8x6 is a little small tbh.

We had a 6 x 4 one a few years ago tucked behind the garage and it worked well

This 8 c 6 one i have been offered would need to go in the main garden and would need to much alteration for my liking so i will more than likely give it a miss

 

[gzoom]

Last 2 summers whilst we were having house renovations done this was the garden.....

We are now back in the house and really appreciating been lucky enough to have one of the best plots in the village. The garden is a wrap around south/west facing. We get sun all day essentially, with no one overlooking expect for all the birds/wild life.

Planted a magnolia tree this week, it'll be good to see it grow over the years. Did some weeding in the neglected corner of the garden where we had 3 fruit trees planned a couple of years back, all seem to be alive, and I aim to try to keep the weeds under control this year.

 

[biggs682]

Two buckets full of bird feeder weeds cleared this morning.
9 runner bean seads planted .

 

[Red17]

Productive couple of days on the allotment this weekend. Loads of weeds cleared and potatoes and beetroot sown. Just need a bit of rain as it's a bit dry at the moment

 

[Sharky]

My allotment has an upper class of plot holder. This is what one sometimes turns up in.

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A 1917 Ford model T!!

I assumed that Fords came in shades of black only. I'll take that as read.

 

[briantrumpet]

First garden tidy of the year, really just the bed with plants in... trying to subdue the couch grass (pulling and some extra membrane), and mowing just the strip next to the bed so that in the three weeks I'm away the bed won't get submerged. The rest of the lawn will be jungle, as it's had a really good dousing this last week and it's warming up here, but I leave it so things can go to seed, and I might get the odd spider orchid too.

I doubt if the cherries will be ripe by the time I leave again early June, but que sera sera. The greengage will need a another good prune at the end of the summer... still too many bits crossing and reaching for the sky.

 

[Gunk]

The garden is just starting to come to life, the grass we seeded where the decking was shortened is doing well, I do love this time of year.