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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bindweed’
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 »
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 [...]
I feel like I am getting somewhere!
Posted in my allotment, tagged Alicante, Anaheim, Asparagus, Aubergine, Basil, Big Banana, bindweed, Borlotti Beans, brambles, Broccoli Claret, Burpless Tasty, butter bean, Cambridge Favourite, Cannellini Beans, Celery, Chillis, cloche, Common Thyme, Connovers Colossal, Coriander, Coure De Bleu, Cucumber, Curly Leaved Parsley, dwarf french bean rocenforte, Flat Leaved Parsley, Full White, garlic, Gartenperle, germinated, Harlequin, Heatwave, Jalapeno, Judibell, Lemon Grass, Lovage, membrane, Millefleur, Mint, netting, onions, Oregano, Pepper, poly tunnel, potatoes, propagator, rain, Runner Bean Best Of All, Russian Tarragon, Sakura, Salad Festival, sowing, Stevia, Strawberries, Summer Savoury, Super Roma, Sweet Cicely, Tigerella, tomato, veg plot, weather, weed suppressant, weeds, windowsill on April 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Well, last Sunday I decided I really need to brave the weather and go and do some allotmenting. The previous two weekends had brought snow, and the forecasts for Sunday were for rain showers and hail. However, it turns out that the weathermen got it wrong.
I trundled over to the plot and decided to start [...]
Day Two…..
Posted in my allotment, tagged aching, bindweed, cultivator, frog, garlic, international kidney, jersey royal, onion, potato on March 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, the weather held out for us today, and after lunch we trundled back to our plots. Despite some weather reports indicating an earlier start to the stormy weather and high winds, we had plenty of sunshine interspersed with small patches of rain and only mild gusts of wind.
We split our attentions again today. I [...]