alison
- Name: Alison
- Age: 39
- Gender: Female
- Location: London UK
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and the rain came down
05/29/08 10:21:16 | 0 Comments
Not that you'd know it from my radio silence, but I've become white the allotmentophile lately. As the days have lengthened, I've been slipping down at 7pm to search and kill slugs and to dig out the remaining plots.
I gave up on the carrots since none of them decided to raise their heads above the crusted ground, but when I dug over the... -
Spudtastic
02/03/08 11:04:57 | 0 Comments
I took delivery of my potato order today. I ordered Desiree, but got King Edwards. But it's not really a big issue, since I only ordered Desiree because they sounded nice. Whether they were better spuds or not is not the issue. So my King Edwards are now sitting in the hurricane shelter with a cherry tree, 2 blueberry stalks, a redcurrant stalk and a black currant stalk. All waiting to be planted.
We spent this morning moving the compost heap from our backyard to the allotment,... -
New allotment
12/03/07 04:51:00 | 0 Comments
This post is a bit late in coming, but a few weeks ago i took over our new allotment plot. It became available when the gentleman who owned it died, which is a sad way to take over something. But I am looking forward to seeing it bloom again.
right now, the plot is empty. His wife and daughters cleared the potatoes, and the corn crop had failed. There are a few tomatoes that had blight, so I don't plan on growing any on the plot at all. I found the remains of some beet plants, but... -
As summer closes, the allotment gets going
10/19/07 06:02:28 | 2 Comments
I haven't really updated you with all the goings on at the allotment (the whole two beds!). That's mostly because the weather has been totally shite, all my tomatoes got blight, and I need to end this sentence in flight...
With apologies to Chris W for the poetic miasma there!
Actually, the biggest problem has been that I kept taking photos on my mobile phone. And until now have had no way to get them off. Turned out it was a processing error. My brain wasn't... -
Row row your leeks...
07/15/07 12:53:31 | 4 Comments
The title is poor, I know. But I am so proud of my nice rows of leeks, tomatoes, aubergine, peppers, chilly, and asparagus peas. The nicely turned bed looks very neat and weed free (for now.)
The leeks I seeded before we went to Sydney, they were desperate to get out of the seed tray.
Using the dibber was slightly more tricksy. Every time I tried to stick
the leeks in the hole, the dirt...
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Sunburn is worth it.
07/11/07 04:10:29 | 3 Comments
Finally a good day, and the allotment starts to take shape. After the beautiful weather for the Summer fair on Saturday, Sunday was just as glorious. Leaving swamped husband to work feverishly on this laptop, I dragged the children down to the allotment to commence digging.
This is the before
picture!
The girls were so helpful pulling... -
rained off - it's like wimbledon for vegetables.
07/03/07 10:26:06 | 0 Comments
I just read an article in the times about using the balmy
nights to get your allotment going. It kept mentioning the long hot days, and I was starting to wonder which year it was actually written in, since that does
not reflect the current weather report in London.
Everytime I went to step out the door, the heavens threw a bit more down. I'd have gone down and worked in the rain... -
Welcome to the rainy season
07/01/07 02:00:34 | 0 Comments
Well - day one did not go off as planned. The heavens remained open with the trademark English drizzle pouring out. Slightly higher volume than normal in fact. We dressed down and set off for the allotment anyway, hoping that someone would be there, and that the gate would be unlocked, since we are not getting our own key until next week. But no joy, even the steadfast old guys were not stupid enough to think spending a day in the downpour would be fun. Hell on their rheumatoid arthritus I... -
On putting yellow fingers to work
06/29/07 08:39:19 | 0 Comments
Ok, so we're back in the land of blighty. At some point in time I'll update you on our trip away (worst floods in 50 years or so, what fun!) but for now I have a new passion. Our allotment.
As you probably have no idea, I've been trying to grow some
veges in the back garden. Thanks to our trip away, most of the veges are casualties of my husband's inability to put snail...
