Category: Allotment News

Allotment Diary–Sunday 18 September 2016

I put up a cheap wind sock this morning as I’m obsessed by the wind strength and direction.  While I was up the ladder I also trimmed the willows. Sadly I had to cut out a third of my sprouts today, party because they were too cramped, partly because of...

Allotment Diary–Tuesday 13 September 2016

I’ve been putting off turning the compost bins again, as a result they’ve sat too long at a high temperature and collapsed a bit.  Fortunately I’ve been accumulating compost in the other two bins and as I turned the two mature bins I consolidated in the quarter filled bins to...

Allotment Diary–Tuesday 06 September 2016

I pulled up the butternut squash today and harvested the last three fruits, I’d planted them through weed stop membrane which had worked well, but under that were a lot of slugs and snails, so next time I put it down I need to make sure it’s well prepared –...

Allotment Diary–Sunday 04 September 2016

Wow, what a great day down on the allotment!  After cycling to Blackpool and back I was wind buffeted and exhausted, but the allotment soon smoothed me out. The first order of the day was clearing ground.  I started by clearing out a couple of rows of baby kale from...