[grendel]

drizzling all day yesterday - still drizzling - I dont think the garlic will be getting planted today.
Grendel

[mumofstig]

miserable isn't it  and there's so much to do!

[Living in Hope]

Glorious day in the Peak District. Dug over planting holes for my top fruit which should arrive at the end of the month, harvested sloes and general tidying up.

[jmc1949]

After a frosty night it's become a beautiful day. I've been in the garden, raking up the leaves. Trimming the pyracantha hedge which due to the warmth is still growing.  Dead headed the dahlias. The summer bedding I put in is still in full flower and the Shasta Daisies and Campanula have put on a second display. 

[Wavertree Red]

Spent the morning making Geoff Hamilton inspired cloches/cages. 8x4 made from reclaimed 2"x2" timber. They're for my raised beds which are also 8x4. Raised beds are reclaimed scaffolding boards. What I'm going to do is line one or two cages with enviro-mesh and a couple with standard netting. Then I'm going to connect them to the boards with a couple of hinges. Should work a treat. Easy access and won't blow away.

[brightgirls]

Nice day in Brighton so up to the allotment and planted some out of date rocket ... you never know... and the remaining onion sets.

 >:(Pesky birds have pulled my broad beans out and had a go at some of the garlics!!! So spent several hours covering my broad beans and Garlic with makeshift fleeces and then stuck up a whole load of up turned milk bottles etc as scarers.

Never see any birds up there, they must come out at night...   Anyway sitting at home now with a cup of tea and feeling please with another day of fresh air.

[gavinjconway]

Ohhhhhh my body aches today..

Continuing on from yesterday I dug out the remaining Dogwood hedge roots and then 4 large Laurel bushes. (2 still remain) Then I dug up 5 x 3mt with a pick and painstakingly removed every root, mares tail, couch grass and weed I could find.. Then fertilised etc and re-planted out 30 Raspberry canes. The ground on my new plot looks so good so I'm preparing it as thoroughly as I can..

Like my compost / manure shed.. 

Note the large pile of cleared debris... now just need some paraffin and a match..  

[Vit]

Getting to grips with the Dogwood hedge that someone in the past has grown!! really cant think why this on an veg plot!!    before and after pics...

one question - do you allowed to burn organic rubbish on the allotment?

[Paul Plots]

Getting to grips with the Dogwood hedge that someone in the past has grown!! really cant think why this on an veg plot!!    before and after pics...

one question - do you allowed to burn organic rubbish on the allotment?

Vit I think if you try a "search" on this forum you will find lots of discussion about bonfires and buring unwanted organic materials. 

[Debz]

A litlle bit of digging and tidying up on one of my sister's raised beds and planted garlic.

[gavinjconway]

[/quote] one question - do you allowed to burn organic rubbish on the allotment?
[/quote]

No problem with burning at all on our site..

[jmc1949]

More digging this morning. Then re-organised the storage area, again.

[DigIt]

Further digging , clearing the new plot on a very grey but reasonably mild afternoon.
Very nearly completed now. 

[Paul Plots]

Not a sausage! I'm still clearing bushes and prunings at the little pink bungalow across the road. 

[richy]

Put my spring cabbage in and covered with mesh to keep pigiens off, pulled a cabbage for the family and pulled a little one for the rabbit.