[chillimummy]

Weeded and hoed around pumpkin and squash. Still slow growing 
Sugar snap peas under net have germinated and lots of little shoots popping up
Small amount of germinated peas are growing well.
Weeded between rows of seedlings that can't remember order I sowed them in 
Weeded strawberries.
Picked and pruned bushes and loads of blackcurrants and red gooseberries and pulled up loads of weeds around them.
Small area around fruit bushes now that is clearer.
Going to tackle rest of fruit bushes at the weekend with help of OH.
Hoping can avoid borrowing strimmer and that can pull up most of weeds, lots of sticky weed.
Will get weed fabric and bark down.   

[Thrutchington]

Busy you! Blimey.

[chillimummy]

Busy you! Blimey.

My mum was visiting for few days and she popped down with me.
Think she may have regretted her offer to help after an hour and a half tackling weeds and getting scratched by brambles     

[Rhys]

Picked a few brambles and rasps, grazing really..


Dug up some spuds (Roosters), not a mark on them. No slug, worm or any damage at all. Pretty chuffed and looking forward to having some for tea tomorrow 


Green manure patch is doing great! Buckwheat has shot up, though not that you'd notice as the Borage has taken over. All good
Stuff..

[New shoot]

Managed to get this lot planted out before the rain set in.  Cabbages R us    Also some erbette and nipper leeks.

Harvested stuff and was just about to start weeding a section, when the odd spots of rain turned into something more persistent and dreary.

[snowdrops]

Weeded one sweetcorn bed,earthed them up & added 2 barrow loads of well rotted manure as a mulch, looked lovely when I stood back. Dug up the last couple of plants of Lady Chrystal potatoes. Came home & did some dead heading in the garden then shredded the pruning of buddleia & bamboo that I pruned the other day

[chillimummy]

Manged all afternoon with OH as weather stayed dry.
He dug over and weeded patch where blackcurrant bushes had been and bonfire after.
Lots of roots there still and odd raspberries showing through. Looks so much better now.
He started digging and weeding patch near fruit bushes where I had pulled up lots of weeds and started pruning fruit bushes.
I hoed between peas, beans, squash and celeriac.
Squash are finally showing signs of spreading 
All looks so much better too.
Planted under two nets, lots of pak choi. Sown at home and all germinated so good job I really like them 
Dug up few plants of charlotte potatoes, lovely clean big potatoes.
Also dug up my garlic, shallots and a few red onions.
Got so much done between us. OH only visits plot very occasionally 
   
 
   

[rowlandwells]

when down the allotment hadn't been down for several days but that rain had altered things we picked a lovely crop of climbing French beans a couple of pointed  cabbage and 4 marrows

I always think when you pick veg like that of ones plot  it really makes working on your allotment so worth the effort
there are a couple spaces where we picked our broad beans and onions that are showing our favourite weed redshank that will be sprayed of this week to keep things tidy

[chillimummy]

Quick visit late on to hoe around.
Leveled soil from digging over at weekend.
At home spread onions and shallots in conservatory to dry out. 

[chillimummy]

Planted two different types of cabbages and netted.
Planted few fennel plants and sowed fennel seeds.
Hoed and weeded.

[shedmeister]

Picked more lurkers

[New shoot]

Pruned back all the excess summer growth on the grape vine at home so the grapes can ripen.  The chickens have now spotted them however, so anything within leaping distance will be history 

Harvested plums - plum brandy now maturing in a big jar in the cupboard under the stairs and plum crumble now in my tum 

[Rhys]

Got some seedlings coming along on my windowsill (cabbage and turnip), which will be ready to plant when I've sorted my green manured half of my plot out.


As far as that has gone, I've strimmed it all flat (about 2 foot high Buckwheat and Borage. It;s looking  tidy at least, until it gets turned over.


Might have to give it a miss tomorrow as there's some race going on in York, and our site is near the centre of the race. Will be a nightmare to get to unless I get there damn early. On a Sunday, when I'm up at 5 every morning.. Maybe not...


Also dug a few spud plants up for my neighbour. I think I'll have plenty so don't mind letting some folks have a few (Roosters. and they taste great). Also strimmed a big patch of weeds for him as well. Took it practically back to bare soil. Been a good buy has my second hand brushcutter/strimmer.


Realised I've been working this plot for one year now as I started it to help my father out who was ill with cancer at the time. He passed away on the 1st August last year so I've had it properly for a year now.


I hope he would be proud of how I've done. Still lots of hard work to do to get it into shape as he'd let it go quite a lot. I wish he could be here to guide me with the vast knowledge he had.. Oh well, I'm getting there.

[miggs]

Got to the plot earlier and all the Onions where laying flat, so pulled up one bed of them, got the soil off and left them on the ground to dry for a few days. Looking at the one's drying out and the other plot of Onions left I must have planted approx 200. Strimmed all the paths, hoed all round, tied up some Tom's, pinched out side shoots.

Forget to post last week about what I did, so just to say that last weekend I planted out about 30-35 Leeks.

Now going into potting shed to sow some Spring cabbage, turnips etc and what ever else I think can go in.

[New shoot]

Dug out the last of the Supasweet onions I was growing for summer salad use.  There were shallots next to them that had already been harvested, so dug over and weeded that whole bit.

Carried on weeding amongst the leeks and cabbages and got a huge pile of stuff for the compost bin.  I had to relocate several slow worms to adjacent bins so I could pile all the new stuff in.  They weren't that impressed, but slid off to find new basking spots under the black plastic covers.