a weblog with an allotment attached
25 March 2005
Sweetcorn Double Standard.
Basil: Mrs Burns’ Lemon; Red Reuben; Sweet Genovese.
More courgettes: Patriot; Gold Bush & Rondo di Nizza as before.
More beans: Runner Bean - Polestar (Not many. Owen doesn’t eat them, and I’m not massively keen. These are for my Dad); French Climbing - Neckar Gold & Blauhilde as before.
Also potted on various [...]
Filed under: Sowings — Clare @ 6:11 pm
25 March 2005
Ouch!
I’m going to have to take it a bit slower today as I’m feeling pretty achey and walking like John Wayne.
It’s not a good look for me.
Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 9:18 am
24 March 2005
I’m back home for a spot of lunch before heading back to carry on. It’s such a beautiful day. The sun’s shining warm and bright, the sky is a gorgeous shade of blue and the fluffy white clouds are being blown oh-so-sedately by the breeze. Perfect drying weather.
Which is great for the [...]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 2:03 pm
24 March 2005
Ooooh! I’ve been productive around the house already today, and now the sun’s coming out, the weather’s fine and I’m off down the allotment to measure out some more beds and continue laying sheet mulching. Does it get any better than this?
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 10:36 am
23 March 2005
Just walked in the door, having spent the afternoon down at the plot, preparing two beds using the sheet mulching method. So, no digging, but still plenty of fork action. Chicken poo and newspapers I have, but I also had to make several trips to the communal pile of leaves, grass clippings and [...]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 6:41 pm
23 March 2005
I’m allowing myself a gentle day as some work I did yesterday left me feeling pretty bruised emotionally and I feel like saying a big ‘fuck you!’ to the world.
So, as I take it easy in preparation for an afternoon’s frenzied (well, OK, not ‘frenzied’ as much as ‘light’ - let’s be realistic) digging, I’ve [...]
Filed under: Today's Bible — Clare @ 1:03 pm
22 March 2005
I woke up this morning at 6am to the sound of rain drumming loudly on the roof (our room is currently in the loft). Very heavy rain.
So much for continuing work down the lottie today.
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 10:17 am
21 March 2005
Can’t contain myself - more seeds in pots. What am I like?
French beans: Neckar Queen; Neckar Gold; Blauhilde.
Squash: Golden Apple; Jack be little (OK, actually a pumpkin. Whatever.).
Filed under: Sowings — Clare @ 6:28 pm
21 March 2005
Well, spent an enjoyable if frustratingly slow-going hour and a half or so down the allotment. The ground is so heavy. After we’ve finished the three beds marked out that remain to be worked on, I’m thinking that I will try lasagne planting on the rest of the ground that we will use [...]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 4:02 pm
21 March 2005
Term has ended so I’m off work now for three whole weeks which means that I can spend a bit of time almost every day doing some work down the allotment. Owen and I were down there yesterday, but the soil we were digging over was particularly heavy and I couldn’t manage it for [...]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 11:45 am
19 March 2005
In a bid to make life easier for myself next year and in order to learn from my mistakes, I have decided to create a new category which will simply list what I’ve sown where and when. This is going to make for pretty dull reading on the main site. Tough.
Indoors:
Courgette: Striato d’Italia; [...]
Filed under: Sowings — Clare @ 6:20 pm
18 March 2005
I know what you’re thinking.
Well, obviously, I don’t actually know what you’re thinking. I do not have electronic mind-reading abilities, that would be a bit spooky. I am not Derren Brown (and he really is a bit spooky). But I suspect that those of you who are regular visitors (that would be [...]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 11:41 am
17 March 2005
And what about ‘disingenuous’? Fan-bloody-tastic.
Filed under: Enthusings — Clare @ 7:24 pm
17 March 2005
Or ‘diarrhoea’.
But only because I like the spelling.
Filed under: Enthusings — Clare @ 11:28 am
11 March 2005
I have been criticised at times in the past for using ‘big words’. Usually the criticism comes from people who have only recently met me and who have got me into a heated discussion about something, perhaps having consumed some alcohol. The snide comments I’ve received have only ever come from people who [...]
Filed under: Enthusings — Clare @ 1:18 pm
7 March 2005
Well, the weather wasn’t nearly as mean and inhospitable as predicted so we did sneak down to the allotment and did some digging yesterday. But being virtuous types, we did also do some work on the house and even found some time to buy a fireplace for the room we’re working on. Productive [...]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 10:31 am
4 March 2005
Having just checked the weather forecast for our part of the world over the next few days I can say with a fair degree of certainty that there won’t be much going on down at the allotment this weekend.
It looks like we can expect spells of ‘By ‘eck it’s nippy!’ followed by periods of [...]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 12:33 pm
2 March 2005
A bit of an up and down day at work today, currently ending on the down.
I’m very lucky in that I really enjoy my work. Except for the paperwork and admin bits. Ooooh, and the very difficult, stressful bits. And let’s not forget the politics of working in a large organisation bits.
I [...]
Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 5:02 pm
1 March 2005
I can barely contain myself. Last week I ordered myself a wormery from Wiggly Wigglers and today it has arrived! I’ve just tipped my bag of worms out onto a lovely moist coir bedding and I’m waiting for them to bury themselves. Actually, if I’m honest, that part was a bit gross.
I imagine [...]
Filed under: Enthusings — Clare @ 1:54 pm