Mild Today At Plot 69
A mild day today down on plot 69 at The Sandringham Avenue allotment site. Wanted to run around Hoylake today but I haven’t shaken off a heavy cold so it was an opportunity to do more weeding.
Walked down pushing my trusty (and rusty) barrow so that I could bring back some bags of nasty, dug-up couch grass. A few plotters have told me not to compost this tough-as-boots weed, so I bring it home and plonk it in the brown bin for recycling.
Did more weeding today on the rear section where I think I might plant some spuds. A helicopter was flying over quite a bit - suspect someone was having lessons or something.
Said hello to Les & George (I think it is) - they seem to be regular allotmenteers, though I seem to recall that they manage 3 plots. I think there are new plot holders at number 38 - they’ve put up a smart new fence on the front of their plot.
Rain, Sun and Weeding
Popped down the plot today for a quick weeding session. Having been on holiday for a week I hadnt been down to the plot for quite a few days.
The weather was a bit of a mixed bag with a bit of rain then bright sunshine.
Did a bit of weeding on a section at the back of the plot, removing pieces of broken greenhouse glass as I went along.
Won’t be too long now before I actually plant something to grow.
Grow Your Own Veg
Interested in growing your own veg too? Well, as you can see from this blog, I’m hoping to do the very same thing this year myself. Other than growing a few spuds in my mums back garden when I was a young lad I’ve never grown anything.
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Bagged Up Some Weeds
Bagged up some previously pulled weeds and did some tidying up in the fruit cage. Only had an hour to spend so didn’t get a great deal done.
A little bit of icy snow around:
The apparently resident pheasant took flight as soon as I arrived. And the apparently resident robin was around too.
Barrowing The Weeds
Went down to the plot this morning and got there before 9am. Said hello to a couple of other early visitors. Really mild for 01-Feb and quite nice with the birds singing away.
Spent an hour or so bagging up some weeds and couch grass that I’m trying to do a good job of clearing. Every other plotter I speak to suggests that I need to really attack the couch grass because it can be such a pain.
Then barrowed some of it back home to throw in our brown, garden waste recycling bin. Spot the Tesco carrier bag …flask, empty, inside!
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Seed Shopping
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