Keeping Chickens on the Allotment
Victory! The chicken war is over. We can now keep chickens on the allotment
Yearly Archives: 2005
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Planting Field Beans as Green Manure
Fresh leeks for tea and planted the field beans on plot 29
Weeding the Leeks and Cutting Green Manure Mustard
Weeding on a beautiful sunny day and I get my prize. Cutting the green manure mustard
Ripening Tomatoes and Spanish Rotavators
Returned from sunny Spain to find grey skies and fast growing weeds and ripened tomatoes
Merry Tiller Problem
Merry Tiller troubles and crazy kamikaze motor bike riders.
Layer Cake Compost Heap
Rebuilding compost heaps, pumpkin hiding place revealed and potato sorting.
Increasing Security on the Allotment
More security added, compost heap finished and tomatoes to the freezer.
Tomato Blight and Allotment Thieves
Harvesting tomatoes, thieves thwarted and a recipe you may not like to eat.
A Great Potato Harvest
Potatoes coming out of our ears! A really great potato harvest
Comparing Potato Cultivars Sarpo Mira and Valor
Potato harvest finally takes off and they're great! Comparing Sarpo Mira and Valor for blight resistance, slug resistance, yield, taste and keeping qualities.
Carrying on the Potato Harvest
Weekend weather didn't live up to promise and even had to work but managed to get a few hours to carry on the potato harvest
Increasing Allotment Security
Tree surgery to increase allotment security, weather protection and starting to harvest the maincrop potatoes.
Storing the Surplus with Tomato Recipes
Poured with rain so decided to try out Allotment Lady's recipe. Not good but brilliant!
More Tomatoes and More on Allotment Vandals
More tomatoes, more on the thief and a warning to be careful for me.
Grand Allotment Tour of Crewe and Nantwich Allotments
A tour of some of the local allotment sites this morning and an update on the allotment thief
Allotment Thief and Harvesting Squash, Carrots and Turnips
Thief on the site. Stolen some tomatoes and marrows. Harvested the rest of the sunburst yellow squash, bag of carrots and turnips
Slugs Eating Tomatoes
Tomatoes and those slugs. From large brown ones with a red frill around the edge to tiny black ones all slugs seem to have one aim. To eat my tomatoes!
National Vegetable Society Proposed District Association
5 minute trip to the plot and some good news at home
Giant Pumpkin, Drying Onions, Blanching and Freezing
Another new person and an unusual pumpkin problem - its too big to get out. Blanching sweetcorn prior to freezing.
Converting Garden Waste into Useful Compost
Quick delivery trip to the compost bins converting garden waste to something useful and harvesting the last of the sweetcorn
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