The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Allotments on Jan 26th, 2007
Although it is still cold with the threat of lower temperatures to come the garden is showing signs of Spring. Brave spring bulbs are defying the calendar and pushing spears of green up through the frosty soil.
Spring fever of a different sort is showing its face down at the allotments. Plot holders are busy planning, [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jan 20th, 2007
It has been a very windy week to say the least. Our plans today were just to take the chicken poo and put it on the bean trench and have a burn up then come home. It was still really windy and we were lucky not to have too much damage, others weren’t so lucky. [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jan 14th, 2007
After all the rain we have had lately it was a welcome change to be working in the mild sunny weather we had today. We arrived at the plot early and before long the good weather had brought all the plot holders out to play.
We moved the small Wilko greenhouse into the lean to and [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jan 9th, 2007
Rain, rain and even more rain. Temperatures are very mild for January but there are bound to be frosts and low temperatures to come. Nothing much happening at the allotment so apart from delivering the poo for the compost all we have done is tie down fences etc which have been loosened by the high [...]
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