Thursday, November 12, 2009

Mr Pumpkinhead seems nonplussed over being placed atop the old compost mound :)
Total Allotment Time: 2hrs.
Principle Tasks: Planting 39 'Vigor' garlic (Self-saved cloves). Cutting back the first of the asparagus plants to have suffered in the weather. Weeding/firming pathways.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Yeah, I'm a big kid :) Happy Halloween!

The spirits are out early! Not really, they're just raindrops caught with the flash :)
Total Allotment Time: 3/4hr.
Principle Tasks: Sowing 23 'The Sutton' dwarf broad beans into veg bed 03 (some doubled). Weeding the main path.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Almost ready for Halloween!
Total Allotment Time: 2 & 1/2hrs
Principle Tasks: Moving self-sown phacelia and limnanthes seedlings. Weeding 'Radar' onions. Thinning out double-sown dwarf broad bean 'The Sutton'.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Total Allotment Time: 10mins
Principle Tasks: None, except dropping off green waste to compost.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Total Allotment Time: 40mins.
Principle Task: Planting the 26 pre-germinated broad bean 'The Sutton' (Sown 7/10/09) into veg bed 03. Mistakenly clearing away the self-sown phacelia from top (gate) end of vb04.