June Update

June 2024

Well it's been the wettest start to a year I can remember.   I didn't get going at all until May.   But have got rotivated,   have got potatoes and onions (12/05/2024 - two months+ late!)  in.   The bean row is up and beans are in the ground.  A new fence is up.   Beetroot are in (04/06/2024).   Have planted some sweet corn (02/06/2024) but not having a lot of joy getting them to germinate (at least in greenhouse),  never mind.   Oh, and we have got a little robin that likes to visit. 

Have also got some self-seeded potatoes am doing an experiment with - am going to have a look shortly and if they are no good will dig em all out.   You can see em below - the freshly dug bit is where the beetroot went in on 04/06/2024

More Golf Shiz

Got a lovely Callaway BJ-1 Putter yesterday from the charity shop yesterday.   Might have to give it a go on the golf course or might just put it straight onto eBay!

Sat 18th / Sun 19th February 2023 - Rotivation Station

 Phil got hold of a second hand rotovator for about the same price as hiring one from a popular building supplies firm in Ashbourne.   So after a bit of a practice we got to rotovating the plot. 

A Third Allotment!

 On 14th January 2023 we were offered a free plot on someone's land who could no longer garden on it.  So we went and had a look and as we had had a crappy year with our old allotments we thought we'd go for it.  

This is what it looked like Mid Jan 2023. 

Summer 2016 - all quiet on the western front...

Summer 2016

Been mega busy.  Fixed water butt on plot 7.  Put pavers down on plot 7.  Put new netting under Shed 7 after receiving a notice from the committee.  Harvested tons and tons.  Had potato blight - chopped down to ground next year getting a blight resistant variety,  Experimenting with a second lot of spuds in a similiar spot to the first earlies.

Pavers at front of shed 7 (pooch in backgound)

The patio - bit grubby but swept up since it went down. 

One of the many 'hauls'!!

Another Haul

Pooch protecting
 plot 13

Monday 22nd August 2016
Have put some seed potatoes into potato bags for Xmas - once tomatoes are done these will be moved into Greenhouse is the plan.

April 2016 Getting Busy

Sunday 3rd April
On plot for about five hours digging in muck, absolutely knackered.  Got some first earlies in a bed on Plot 13 so a little bit of progress.  Got a metre squared bed sorted out with strawberry runners which is good'ish.   Some pesky beastie is digging up the recent onions that went into a patch on number 7 - very irritating.

Sunday 10th April

Got another five hours done - all on Plot 13 - got one bed ready for brassicas,   got some spuds in on a plot where brassicas had been.  Got bean row taken down as that's going to be on one of the beds at the bottom this year. am going to have to mow and what have you real soon.   Got another bed at the side cleared - got five bags of weeds taken to the recycling centre.  Got the raspberry patch all weeded as much as possible and plenty of muck chucked on. 

April 2016

Week ending 3rd April 2016
Got to the lotty.  Got three beds-worth of muck dug in.  Got two rows of first earlies (bottom left'ish of this photo) in the ground - it says they should be Duke of York.   Got my second strawberry metre squared sorted out.   All good stuff.