Posted in Allotments on Nov 29th, 2007
After a nasty bout of coughs and colds Rob and I didn’t feel much like plodding through the mud to take the chicken poo to the composters at the allotment. All the plots are mostly ‘put to bed’ now with some of the plotholders covering all with plastic sheeting. However our spirits were lifted by […]
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Posted in Allotments on Nov 20th, 2007
While Rob put down three more slabs and spread a few more bags of horse manure on plot 18 I carried on with putting plot 8 to bed. I cut down the Dhalias, put some well rotted manure over the bed then covered it with straw anchored down with the netting from the top of […]
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Posted in Allotments on Nov 11th, 2007
A damp chilly day was brightened up by the sight of new green shoots on the onions and the broad beans. No sign of life as yet on the potatoes in the lean to though.
We are mostly tidying up and collecting seeds on our visits these days. However, we did bring home a nice cabbage, […]
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