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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 11:44 pm Post subject: New Allotment Diary... February 25th |
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Had an allotment for a fortnight now. First weekend went well, got a lot of digging done. Last Saturday I got back into it, and got maybe just under half-way through digging over, and sowed various seeds in the house for later planting out.
Had a great big pile of scrap material, and lots of dried up fat hen. That was all cleared into a pile and burned last Saturday evening; a couple of friends came down to help, you can always rely on having pyromaniac friends
Then, the next morning, I managed to put a chisel into my finger. Needless to say, after an operation on Monday morning, I didn't get back to the allotment till today. It's still looking OK, except that there's a whole load of holes around the site where I had the bonfire, and fox footprints all over the place. They haven't moved in, but it would appear that there's a family of foxes four allotments down from me, and they've got into the habit of digging under and around any fires when they've died down but are still warm. Talking to some of the other allotment holders, it would appear that young foxes nicking the string you've used to tie up your peas is a regular local hazard.
My raspberry plants arrived today. Finger splinted and bandaged up or not, I'm planting them on Sunday. Oh, and I've got my pallets sitting there still for building my compost heaps. It's almost all falling into place. Now I just have to grow something |
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moggins
Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 942 Location: Gloucester
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25795 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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nettie
Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 5888 Location: Suffolk
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