I need to ensure better protection for them next time around I think.
I suspect birds are the culprits, although mice are also suspects. It’s disappointing, but, too late to remedy it now. My peppers have taken off now though, and I have plenty of various types of tomatoes that are swelling, and will hopefully start [...]
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My courgettes are massive marrows, but all my green leafy veg are diminutive specimens
Posted in my allotment, tagged birds, chutney, courgette, jam, marrow, mice, pickley, ripening, Trieste White on August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gooseberries Galore, Rampant Raspberries and Burgeoning Blackcurrants
Posted in In The Garden This Week, my allotment, tagged blackcurrants, brambles, fruit picking, gooseberries, harvesting, raspberries, redcurrants, ripe on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We went fruit picking on the plot on Sunday. I’d been itching to go and pick some fruit for about a week because I knew that there was plenty ready.
So, my husband and two children and I went over to the allotment armed with a few baskets to collect fruit.
The raspberries were in absolute abundance. [...]
NEWSFLASH for all Allotment Growers – Traces of herbicide Aminopyralid made by Dow Agrosciences found in manure
Posted in Ask Me Anything - Gardening Questions and Answers, Hints Tips and Other Stuff, In The Garden This Week, my allotment, tagged aminopyralid, Dow Agrosciences, guardian, manure, newsflash, observer on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
See here http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/29/food.agriculture
Thankfully I’m not affected by this, nor any of my fellow allotmenteers on our site. But, it seems to be a pretty widespread problem and very upsetting for those affected.
How could this product be allowed to be used?
A little experimental pest prevention on the plot….
Posted in Hints Tips and Other Stuff, my allotment, tagged butternut, fledgling, growing success, husbandry, insecticide, marigolds, slug/snail killer, squash, whitefly on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m battling with slugs on my plot at the moment. I’ve found some organic Slug/Snail killer from Growing Success. It seems to be doing the trick so far.
My broad beans do have some black fly on them, and I’ve experimented with some organic insecticde made from plant extracts.
However, I thought I’d take it one step [...]
Argh!!! The Birds!!!
Posted in my allotment, tagged bindweed, birds, currants, florence fennel, fruit cage, lambs lettuce, little gem, lollo rosso, netting, peas, radicchio, red cabbage, slugs, snails, sweetcorn on June 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another trip to the allotment today. The red cabbage plants I planted the other day have been decimated (by slugs I think, but I think there may be some other prolific pest at large).
Worse still, two of the currant bushes have been almost completely stripped of fruit. It wasn’t ripe yet so the birds that have [...]
A quick trip to the allotment that turned into a two hour visit
Posted in my allotment, tagged Aubergine, bindweed, block formation, currants, gooseberries, jam, peaches and cream, radishes, snake, sweetcorn on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t mean to be long……..
But, I wanted to plant the 3 aubergine plants that I’d been propagating at home, particularly since they were starting to suffer from life in the small pots they were housed in.
So, off I went, and ended up spending about an hour pulling out more bindweed (if only all my [...]
The Fruit Plot – Week 3
Posted in Photos on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Veg Plot – Week 3
Posted in Photos, my allotment, tagged veg plot on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Helping out the School’s “Allotment” project
Posted in my allotment, tagged allotment, compost, compost heap, cost-effective, growing your own, Head Teacher, orchard, polytunnel, Potager, project, raised beds, water butt on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A letter was distributed last week by my daughters school. It including a mention of wanting more volunteers for their gardening project. Naturally, I was very keen to find out more and immediately contacted the school to offer help.
I visited the school, and, it seems that they have some quite ambitious, but very do-able ideas [...]
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