The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Allotments on Aug 25th, 2007
We dragged Sean down to parade round the lotty last night. He made all the right noises and said ooh at the right time so all was well. Poor lad. It was very hard going today as the sun was beating down and there was no breeze at all. Most of the plot holders were [...]
Posted in Allotments on Aug 22nd, 2007
We made a quick visit to the plot today and took Libbie with us as she was spending the day with us. A slow walk round was followed by a visit to the water butt with the watering can then helping Nan to water the tomatoes. Then we pulled a few carrots, picked a few [...]
Posted in Allotments on Aug 21st, 2007
Another busy day. We cleared the nursery bed , emptied the first composter onto it and covered it with plastic ready for next year. I pulled up the last of the Barlotti Beans from there but we still have a couple of rows elsewhere. The broad beans Rob had sown on plot 18 have done [...]
Posted in Allotments on Aug 19th, 2007
We spent a pleasant couple of hours at the plots this morning and I managed to tidy the two beds in front of the greenhouse and get some of the young brassica plants in there. The chinese leaf that we had planted had gone to seed so I had planned to pull it up but [...]
Posted in Allotments on Aug 17th, 2007
I was given some seeds for these lovely beans by the previous plot holder and have grown them this year for the first time. I am not sure of the correct name for the ones I have but on doing a google I came up with the above. Well wether they are Barlotti or Borlotti [...]
Posted in Allotments on Aug 13th, 2007
It has been a while since I wrote on the weblog but there hasn’t been much to report. The weather has gone from one extreme to another and there is a definite hint of Autumn in the air already. We are getting loads of runner beans every visit now and we have been amazed at [...]
