[gavinjconway]

Not down the allotment, but I've found the time to sort through the stored spuds. None going rotten but a few have been busy sprouting, so cleaned these off and off back to store for them.

Just realised it is now 6 months that we have been dining on our own spuds. Lifted the first on the 8th June!

20 June was my first digging so almost 6 months as well... nearing the end of them now with giving some away to family and friends..

[DigIt]

Not down the allotment, but I've found the time to sort through the stored spuds. None going rotten but a few have been busy sprouting, so cleaned these off and off back to store for them.

Just realised it is now 6 months that we have been dining on our own spuds. Lifted the first on the 8th June!

20 June was my first digging so almost 6 months as well... nearing the end of them now with giving some away to family and friends..

Still got quite a lot to go at yet here....

[snowdrops]

Delivered the last 4 flags today... then found another 8 later on... still to be collected and delivered..

It sound like you've got a collection to rival mine,I keep being told they'll be no room to grow anything soon

[DigIt]

Finally got to the allotment today, it is decidedly wet under foot but I'm guessing a couple of dry days (LOL) would have the ground dry enough to work.
The currants (black, red and white) all got a prune today and I finished off cutting down the asparagus ferns.
The pear cordon and some of the apples are going to need a winter prune too.

Came home with a nice haul of :
Beetroot
A Savoy
Bunch of Spring Onions
Austrian Cooking Radish
a handful of Landcress
and Leeks

I am getting quite a few leeks running to seed, which I haven't had in the past (certainly not at this time of year, usually much later in the season, March/April).

Just wondering, is anyone else experiencing this?

[gavinjconway]

Have now delivered all the flags I've found recently and this last lot had to leave car outside the site and cart in by wheelbarrow due to a new sign "no cars in the site when wet"  .... ?? don't we live in England where it does rain quite a lot...I asked myself..  anyway then my son helped finish laying the centre path.. well almost - still 4 more 2x2 to find for the path. I now also have enough other sizes to do the shed and greenhouse surrounds.

Pity it's raining hard today so will do some home chores instead..

[Paul Plots]

With me it is a case of "What plot? Where?"

So very busy I've been there no more than a very few hours in the last two months. Hoping the waether allows me catch-up time later in the winter. 

[Plot 6B]

We had a working party today.
Several plot holders got together to clear up the mess from the large Leafmould delivery of a couple of weeks ago!

[bazh]

Managed to get to the plot for an hour this afternoon, just had 10 raspberry canes delivered yesterday along with white, red and black currant bushes so got them all in, the ground has been prepared for ages but the nursery in Scotland I got them off couldn't lift them as them had no frosts.

This morning went to a local nursery to get our Christmas tree and couldn't resist buying some more garlic, wanted to get that in today but had my 3 yr old in tow on the plot and after an hour in the drizzle planting the fruit bushes and canes he was ready for home so they got dumped in the shed for another day.

[jmc1949]

Very envious of those plot holders in the drier south of the country who are still managing to work their plots. Went to the allotment this morning to see if was still OK after the fierce winds and rain last week. Couldn't do anything. The whole allotment site is waterlogged. Thought my plot was wet but some of the other plots now have ponds!!

[brightgirls]

delivered lots of wood today to the plot for building raised beds in the new year...put most of it in the shed to anchor it against the strong predicted winds

No one up at the allotment but it was sunny so I stayed an hour and did a bit of tidying, checking winter crops and battling the resident rat under the old water tank!

[DigIt]

Whilst the wind lashes the rain against the windows  , taken the time to read up ready for my delivery of a gage and 3 blackberries canes later this week.

Shame the forecast ain't brilliant.

[brown thumb]

dig it where abouts in st austell are you ?and ist the weather terrible to day.

[DigIt]

Hi Brown Thumb,

Foul weather here in Penwithick.

[kosh42|EFG]

Spent all day at the plot and finally got around to digging the roots, stones, plastic and glass shards out of the right half of the poly tunnel, and build the raised beds and frames for the detachable staging:


Outside was too wet to work...

[Paul Plots]

It looks a lovely job.

(I hope the wind leaves it all safely alone)