Blogat the allotment day 50 (approx): veg box
Saturday, August 16th, 2008not quiet joe swift’s veg box, and our first load of “large” harvest, but we’re very pround of it.
we had roast veg this evening, twas fab. the sweetcorn was so good we had it raw, none of that starchy taste you get from normal sweetcorn!
at 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 […]