a weblog with an allotment attached
31 March 2007
We’re back from a long day at the plot, feeling tired and happy. I can tell you briefly that today we have
dug over innumerable beds
weeded the onions and garlic
planted out lettuce seedlings
transplanted pot-sown broad beans
pulled up all remaining leeks and donated LOADS to other allotment holders, thereby appeasing the allotment gods who will now [...]
Filed under: Hard labour, Plot politics — Clare @ 4:27 pm
12 March 2007
Bad weather, good social life and crazy work schedules have all conspired recently to keep us far away from the plot (you will probably have gathered this from the dearth of posts about anything remotely allotment related), but today we managed to break our absent streak and nipped down there for an hour or so.
There’s [...]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 7:04 pm
4 February 2007
Some days just start out well, don’t they? Maybe it was the great company yesterday evening. Perhaps it was the good food, the sparkling wine and the amaretto. I suppose it might just have been that the sun was shining when I woke up today. Whatever the reason, I knew that today [...]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 5:18 pm
25 January 2007
We made a visit to the plot today and pootled around preparing a trench in the broad bean bed and pulling up weeds in what I think might become a bed for peas. The weather was sunny and frosty but really lovely so in theory we could have worked hard and come home feeling [...]
Filed under: Hard labour, Seasons - winter — Clare @ 4:13 pm
21 January 2007
Today we visited the allotment for the first time since October. We were a little anxious about how awful it might be when we got there, and certainly the recent winds had wreaked havoc with last year’s bean frame, but other than that there was much to gladden the heart.
All of our garlic is [...]
Filed under: Hard labour, Harvest, Sowings — Clare @ 4:36 pm
14 August 2006
After hours of regular and dedicated graft (doesn’t sound like us, does it?) the plot is finally starting to look as though someone cares for it instead of the tatty, abandoned face it presented to the world when we got back from our holiday. I won’t pretend that the bindweed is not still [...]
Filed under: Hard labour, Review & plan — Clare @ 7:51 pm
9 August 2006
This working from home malarkey is really something, I can tell you. Today we got up at 9am (what bliss! A lie-in! On a work day!) before both settling down at our respective computers to earn our honest bucks and ensure that the mortgage gets paid. We took it in turns [...]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 6:53 pm
2 August 2006
Once again we had a 45 minute stint of wrestling with the rampant weeds. Any more than that and the boredom makes my head go pop. The good news is, we can now see some of what we’ve planted and even some pathways. It’s good to know that we are slowly making [...]
Filed under: Hard labour, iPlot — Clare @ 8:12 pm