Argh!!! The Birds!!!

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 [...]

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A quick trip to the allotment that turned into a two hour visit

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 [...]

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My first harvest!

Having spent quite some time now sorting out my allotment plot, I finally had the opportunity of tasting one of my own-grown vegetables. I was thinning some radishes, and popped one in my mouth! It had little taste but I put that down to it only being the size of a bean!
It’s all going quite [...]

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