Second Prize in the Allotment Competition

Competition Results

As predicted by me – 2nd Prize! Apparently it was quite close run between 1st and 2nd – matter of 1 or 2 points. I had a quiet hope for first but I think the result was fair.

Hopefully next year more will enter and I won’t get a look in. We’re talking on the site about some co-operative efforts and creating a communal area. More on this as it develops.

Weather cools to tolerable

Down around 4pm, following a trip to the dentist. If it hurts it must be good for you. Spent the afternoon on plot 29. Weeded the strawberry bed and cut off most of the runner. Left a few that have rooted which I will transplant to fill in gaps. Tok some photos, which I will post tomorrow.

Horsetail

Quite a few sprigs of root are sending up shoots. I’m not going chemical on the beds unless it gets beyond coping, just digging out the root and shoot.

Pulled out the lettuce that have gone to seed on the salad bed and weeded then got out the sprinkler and watered the strawberry bed, the salad bed and the beans and peas. The Dorian peas producing large pods, which are filling out well. Pulled up the Early Onward, harvesting the pods I have missed and the haulm to the compost bin along with a cut from the comfrey plant.

There has been a delivery of wood chippings so a few barrow loads went to the path where they are getting thin.

Greenhouse Potatoes Experiment Conclusion

The last bag of potatoes from the greenhouse was opened and produced zilch, nada, nowt, nothing. I must have done something wrong as they were an utter failure. Barrowed the spent compost to plot 5. Val, my wife, dropped round with two large sacks of greenery from the flower garden. I always tell her the value of flowers is as compost material – then duck!

Home around 9pm – time passes quickly when you’re having fun.