Blogat the allotment day 23: burn baby burn!
Sunday, July 13th, 2008we finally bought an incinerator (called arnie) and boy can it burn. i tried to make a bonfire on previous occasions and failed to get it hot enough to turn weeds and wood into embers, this guy is the real deal. it was hot enough at the spout that i could’ve cooked a jacket potato […]
at the allotment day 22
Sunday, June 29th, 2008mrs. booyaa planted more carrots, peppers and border plants today. we’ll have to make a carrot fly box soon to protect our rotters from those pesky pests.
no surprise what yours truly was doing, i was weeding! this time it was the turn of fox town to get a bit of tlc.
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not a […]
at the allotment day 21
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008just a very brief visit today (less than an hour), mostly to give everyone a drink, and weed the tomatoes (finally).
if you look very closely in the photo below, in the background you can seen our new additions the daleks (aka compost bins). these are 220L jobbies which proved very difficult to get to the […]
at the allotment day 20
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008last night i popped over to the lotty to do a few jobs:
feed the compost bin with our kitchen waste (yes, can haz compost bins!)
harvest taters
pick some raspberries
weed around the toms
water everything
foolishly, i thought i could do this in half an hour, it was more like an hour and a half!
i’ve still got to water […]
at the allotment day 19
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008hey gang! i’ve managed to lose count of which days we’ve been to the lotty. i think with the exception of one weekend we’ve been going, just not been posting about it.
sadly the horse tail obliterated our carrot and spring onions. we have a small row of carrots growing away. the beetroot is also doing […]