Jungle is massive.

That title, I know, I just couldn’t resist. So here’s the jungle (sorry, I mean allotment) on Saturday morning: Really, really overgrown again. Here are the beds I dug out at the front of the plot: There are a couple of beetroot amongst the weeds, good luck spotting them! As for the tool box and […]

Welcome To The Jungle (apologies to Guns’n’Roses) …

A wedding one weekend, then a virus laying me low the next weekend – so two weekends without a visit to the allotment. Big mistake. I now own a jungle. Waist high grass, check. Nettles, check. Around nine tons of bindweed, double check. The weeds have grown at a ridiculously alarming rate. I mean it […]

Bank Holiday allotmentering, part 2.

Day two. The good weather has disappeared, grey sky’s and light rain are the order of the day instead. In the autumn and winter I covered up large sections of the allotment with tarpaulins and weed control fabric. Everything I read said this would kill off all the weeds and made it a lot easier […]

Bank Holiday alotmenteering, part 1.

First day at the allotment this weekend was hot, sunny and exhausting, the second day was just as exhausting but much greyer. For the moment, here’s the update from day one. I went in with a lot of ideas and a whole list of jobs, all waaaaaaay over ambitious. Once I realised how much work […]

Thieves, and work at the allotment

So I went to the allotment today and found I’d had a visitor. A thieving bastard of a visitor, unfortunately. They broke open the tool trunk, you can see the broken bit below. Didn’t look like they took much, if anything. One of the benefits of having battered second hand tools I guess. The other […]

More raised beds

As part of the ongoing process of clearing the allotment I decided to set up a couple of the other raised beds left by the previous owner. I picked two in reasonable condition and started clearing weeds. Then I found a use for all the packaging accumulated over the Christmas present buying marathon of November […]