Another trip to the allotment today. The red cabbage plantsĀ 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 [...]
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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 [...]