[SkipRat]

Spent a very windy afternoon stripping and denailing 6 pallets 

[suziet88]

Spent a very windy afternoon stripping and denailing 6 pallets 

Surely it was too cold and windy to be stripping?!!

[Gandan57]

Spent about four and a half hours there this PM virtually on my own, bit too breezy for most.

Planted all my Rocket early spuds and planted out fifty parsnips that I started off in cardboard tubes. These still had just their seed leaves but some of the roots were a good 4+ inches long,almost to the bottom of the tube.

The ground had been dug in November and I used a two inch diameter post and a sledgehammer to make 15 to 18 inch holes. I moved the post around to make each hole bigger at the top. I filled the holes with a mixture of spent compost, seived soil, (builders) sand and BFB, firmed it with the upturned post and put the tube on top.

An awful lot of work I know, but I had nothing better to do. I`m hoping the alloment chairman who is next door will be impressed. He`s been there 30 years, this is my first......

[Thrift]

FLIPPIN WIND!!

Went up to the plot to discover the brand new polytunnel mangled in the meadow behind the plot.  After I'd finished crying  we retrieved it and confirmed that it was truly b*ggered.

Oh Well

Treated the wood for the raised beds while OH dug over beds on which to place them.

Where am I going to raise my seeds now?

P.S. we weren't the only ones to sustain damage...roll on some nice weather

I had the same experience last year Gravedigger and after a certain amount of 'restoration' and further reinforcement and nailing down it still succumbed to the gales this year.  As a big chunk of old stone wall went into the field too I can't replace it until that is re-built. I think it will have to be replaced with a greenhouse if there is one strong enough to withstand the  gales. Until then, maybe a cold frame.

[Paul Plots]

Went down to fetch the toolbox from the lottie to try to repair the gaping hole the wind left in my garage roof last night. Looks like that's as much allotmenteering as i'll be doing today. 

I know the feeling of disappointment. My planned 3 hour escape to the plot changed into a longer stay at my parents place.  My father didn't want the shower I suggest he take when I arrived......until it was time for me to go.
Bye, bye plot visit. Rain forecast for tomorrow too. 

[grendel]

still waiting for a new key from where the broken lock was replaced yesterday. so no allotting for me this evening.
Grendel

[Jamie Butterworth]

Went and sat in the allotment to try and get a bit of fresh air.

[andy135]

Built staging down one side of greenhouse and laid out seed trays. It's going to be a busy weekend sowing seeds. 

[Rangerkris]

Planted my earlies felt like taking a chance on them i can cover if needed later, got some netting for fruit cage i want to build and had a chat with the site rep we are getting toilets built woo hoo.

[SkipRat]

Spent a very windy afternoon stripping and denailing 6 pallets 

Surely it was too cold and windy to be stripping?!!

They build us tough in Hull......

[SkipRat]

Put up 15 foot of fencing, and laid 10 paving slabs...

[DD.]

Picked a fight with the loganberry.

Think I lost.

[andy135]

Picked a fight with the loganberry.

Think I lost.

I have a bramble, nettle and livestock fence to take out tomorrow. Think I'll don my welding gauntlets. 

[millimole]

Exactly 30 minutes - on my way home from work: Hoed and raked over the bed for the parsnips, and planted four rows of them. Partly dug over the Broad Bean bed. Checked the weed control fabric hadn't blown away. Whew!

[mashbintater]

Nipped in on my way home during the pouring rain to check my tent / cold frame. Was amazed my poly cover & all my placcy bottles were as I left them despite the howling gales over the last couple of days  .     
 I whipped the poly cover off my "cold frame" anyway so my seeds could have a drink  .