#allotment Timeline

59d

I really like this allotment site. It’s friendly and it feels good to share. My plot neighbour left these in my shed for me. #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #GrowingCommunity

A handwritten note reads we borrowed your wheelbarrow to move some woodchip - I hope that’s ok. Here’s some chutney to say thank you. Harriet & Rémy. An overhead view of a jar with a red and white tartan designed lid is below the note and it contains a red plum and apple chutney. They can borrow my wheelbarrow anytime.

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59d

The raspberry beds have been given a layer of wood chip, the cosmos is still flowering and the green manures are growing nicely. #NoDig #Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #GreenManure #Mulch

The back third of an allotment plot has two growing beds sown with green manure and two raspberry beds with a wood chip mulch. In the far corner is a blue shed open to the elements with no fitted windows. It is full of allotment paraphernalia that needs sorting out. Compost bays with bamboo canes stacked upright have carrot tubs protected with wire mesh in front. The trees beyond are slowly losing their foliage.

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A framed growing bed is covered with wire mesh to keep the worst of the wildlife out. It needs weeding but the field beans inside are just starting to show. A light pink and a darker pink cosmos are flowering on the outside corner of the bed. The rest of the next growing bed is sown to green manures and the last throes of some french marigolds.

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A curved growing bed protected with some green chain link fence has green manures growing inside with mustard being the dominant plant. There are broad beans, winter peas, vetch and clovers sown here also. The re are frosts forecast over the next week which will knock back most of this growth to enable the beans and peas to come through.

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57d

Bit of a grim old day, if not as wet as forecast.

Wandered down to the butcher earlier on and picked up some chicken thighs, bacon (smoked streaky), and 2.5kg of diced venison (at £8.80/kg cheaper than the stewing beef I had intended to buy). The venison will go with 800g of "yellow sticker" mushrooms we found in Tesco for 64p to be a big batch cook for the weekend.

Main job for the afternoon has been peeling all of what I consider to be our "C grade garlic". A job I've been putting off, but now I have noticed they're sprouting so it needs doing.

The garlic will be going into the food processor with some oil and then get frozen as "garlic cubes".

I'm only half way through but my right thumb is already hurtin'!

#allotment #gyo

On the left a big black tray of skungy looking garlic, with lots of skin from peeled cloves in the front right, on the right a stainless steel bowl of garlic cloves.

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273d

My #allotment friend is back. When not posing with the apple blossom they followed along the weeding eating any disturbed grubs
#Birds #robin

A eurasian Robin standing on a small branch amidst a mass of light pink apple blossoms

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31d

The dead hedge behind the compost bays on the plot.

There’s a wooden hedgehog house in the middle of it providing some shelter hopefully to a pair of hedgehogs.

Robins regularly perch on the dead hedge branches. The dead hedge is habitat to many species of insects and visiting wildlife. #Allotment #Wildlife #Gardening #Biodiversity

A dead hedge of various wooden branches, brambles and hedge trimmings are held in place in between eight wooden stakes hammered into the ground. There are four stakes on either side of the dead hedge. A blue shed is just beyond the dead hedge. Behind the dead hedge are bamboo canes which are stored vertically inside the pallets of two compost bays.

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A wooden inclined passageway is the entrance to a wooden hedgehog house. A dead hedge is built around the hedgehog house giving it some security. Various sticks, branches and bramble stems can be seen over the top of the covered passageway. The hedgehog house itself is raised off the ground to reduce any possible water logging allowing it to remain warmer and more durable.

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A red breasted European robin is perched on a branch of a dead hedge. Various sticks, branches and brambles make up the bulk of the dead hedge. A pair of wooden stakes are just visible either side of the dead hedge to keep it in place.

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31d

This is my composting set up over winter. We are fortunate our winters are mild. The piles are unlikely to freeze.

The two palleted compost bays have been freshly turned.

Four compost Daleks contain maturing compost.

Another compost dalek recieves the weekly veg peelings and garden weeds with sawdust added over the top.

After taking the photos all the compost was covered or lids put back on to keep the rain off. #Compost #Composting #NoDig #Mulch #Gardening #Allotment #Solarpunk

Two compost bays are made from five pallets. Two pallets provide the back wall and three pallets at right angles make the left side, right side and centre divide of the two bays. Two piles of compost are dark brown. The left hand pile has three black downpipes down the centre line to allow air flow into the centre of the pile. The right side pile is older compost and is noticeably more broken down.

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21d

Popped down to the #allotment for a brief #WinterSolstice visit, harvested some vegetables to roast with Gunther tonight. A bit of a motley crew, but they'll do.

Parsnips, short, stubby, bulbous - sound a bit like how pets look like their owners, or vice versa... big lumpy beetroot, purple and white - my spirit animals? And some rather diminutive celeriac.

Vegetables on top of a pallet, wet from being rinsed... left is a bunch of gnarly short bulbous parsnips, in the middle two large purple beetroot to the front, two medium white beetroot behind, and to the right some very rooty small celeriac.

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