[New shoot]

How did you know it was my birthday ?

If you have your date of birth entered into your profile, you have cakes added to your posts on your birthday.  See here 

https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=11392.msg1589144#msg1589144

[pepsi100]

Well, I never knew that, thank you, very much appreciated

[Nobbie]

Before I started on mine I had to help my dad move to a new allotment on his site which has strawberry, raspberry, asparagus bed, greenhouse and shed! Unfortunately his old allotment had accumulated all sorts of ‘useful’ metal, wood and plastic🙄. Three trips to the local tip later and it’s in a suitable state for the next tenant. Made a start on mine by ripping down a rotten fence made of pallets and aim to get rid of all the excess wood which is just providing a breeding ground for slugs.

[snowdrops]

Hubby & I went today for him to add a new perch for the 3 new girls to get alongside the 3 old girls, which required us to dismantle the munty bean frame to use 1 of the older uprights for the perch. He also clad the sides of the secure run with its winter garb of corrugated plastic sheeting, so they’re all sorted for the winter. Got the bean beds all swoed & raked up & on the compost pile. Now need to collect manure & wood chips to apply to all the beds & paths respectively & then add homemade compost & refill the compost bins oh & clear & do the same to the poly tunnel (14 x25ft  )

[Hampshire Hog]

Roughly dug over my sweetcorn bed removing the remaining roots and covered with black plastic. Weeded the purple sprouting broccoli. Getting there slowly.

[Christine]

Mine's coming on just fine - have handed in the keys to an enthusiast who has had a plot previously. She's started but rain stopped play today.

[AnneB]

Slowly.  We are waiting to rebuild our compost bins which have rotted away after over a decade.
Unfortunately some wasps built their nest in one half and are refusing to die off or depart.  Meanwhile all the material for composting from summer crops is piled up one one bed awaiting action.

[snowdrops]

Mine's coming on just fine - have handed in the keys to an enthusiast who has had a plot previously. She's started but rain stopped play today.

Oh! Have you another or is that you finished with an allotment? If so how’s that feeling?

[Christine]

Mine's coming on just fine - have handed in the keys to an enthusiast who has had a plot previously. She's started but rain stopped play today.

Oh! Have you another or is that you finished with an allotment? If so how’s that feeling?

Totally retired. It's a lifestyle change but 5 days is hardly time to build a whole new life style. I've a small back garden to investigate properly. And the allotment committee paperwork to sort still. 

[snowdrops]

Harvested the last of the tunnel tomatoes,red & green, the last aubergine and a few peppers in readiness for clearing the plants this week hopefully. I’ve yet to do the asparagus bed & weed the permanent brassicas , I’m also working on the garden bit by bit, as things are slowly finishing, but things are still flowering & are still green, plus I now don’t do a thorough garden clear before winter to leave places for creatures to over winter.

[pepsi100]

Trying to cut back all this Lindum turf, its really taken a hold this year

I'm using shears to cut it back, there is a lot of it and a lot of slugs and snails hiding in there

When there is a sign of frost, my fruit trees will be coming inside, along with the wifes plants, bringing her plants in, after a couple of weeks they start flowering,

The conservatory isnt even heated

All my herbs will start dying off, regardless of where they are

I just need a couple of dry days to finish off

[snowdrops]

Trying to cut back all this Lindum turf, its really taken a hold this year

I'm using shears to cut it back, there is a lot of it and a lot of slugs and snails hiding in there

When there is a sign of frost, my fruit trees will be coming inside, along with the wifes plants, bringing her plants in, after a couple of weeks they start flowering,

The conservatory isnt even heated

All my herbs will start dying off, regardless of where they are

I just need a couple of dry days to finish off

What fruit trees are you bringing in? I’ve brought my lemons & orange in

[pepsi100]

snowdrops

Lemon, Lime tree, young fig trees, lime tree
My lemon tree seems to produce lemons year round

The lime tree has never produced flowers or fruit, so the last time I bring it in,,no fruit next years, it goes

[bayleaf]

I am way behind. It's been so wet here. I have a part of the plot that has been under water continously since 28th August. I'll post some pics if I can.

[snowdrops]

I laid 2 layers of thick brown cardboard down today & covered it with the bags of wood chippings that I was gifted the other day ( I filled the bags, all 31 of them! then they were delivered to my plot, such a kind chap). Managed 4 paths, a few more to go  . Looks better already