this weekend (can'tt hink what date)

Hiya!

The old shed is down, dismantled and in two large piles ready for a bonfire party come november! Willy has continued to be a trooper, has found me a cold frame, and a water butt and is currently in the process of digging out one of the 6 FURTHER tree stupms he intends to do. He has already done 5!

Planning on harvesting a couple of caulis and some brocoli tomorrow - and i'm dead excitind cos vivi is coming to my lotty tomorrow!! now what jobs can i give her to do, should i give her the hoe or should i set her up with a treestump or should i be nice and giv her a fork and tell her to get digging......]mwhhh hhaaa hhhaaaaa

Thursday 10th september

Way got a fence put between me and Colin! also got down most of the hawthorn chopped down!

6th Sept

Hiya!
Round uped a whole loads of weeds this afternoon, Willys wonderful work has inspried me to get going a bit.

Oh and he gave me a greenhouse!!! How cool

For tea tonight the only thing i bought was the gravey granules! - how cool is that

5th Sept

God i can't believe it is september already - where did the year go!!!

Any way I have shovelled half a tonne of hos shit this morning, it is all where i want it now it smells really good and is all crumbly and steaming! how sad that i get excited about pooh!!!

Anyway harvested my first cauliflower this morning, got a red cabbage last week and used my first leek for the sausage casserole this eveing! Colin gave me some brocoli and Roger gave me 15lb of Damsons..... Now what the hell am i going to do with 15 bloody lb of damsons.

MUMMY can i borrow the jam Kettle!!!

On another note got to the allotment today and one eyed willy has pulled down and replavced his fence, and ripped out all of the old tree stups on my side, dug up the willow tree, puttede out a whole load of bind weed and got rid of most of the nettles, filled the big pond anf has offered to fill the little pond too!! What a shock I wasn't happy at first as my carrots got trampled and squashed but they probably wouldn't have amounted to much anyway so I am very grateful as he has saved me a whole heap of work. Going to Plant an apple tree and a plum tree in the bit he has cleared later on in the year and grass over the pond for a sitting area - all very civilised!

22nd and 23rd Aug!

Wow two days in a row!! Wonders will never cease.

Spent yesterday evening dodging mozzies and picking runner beans - 15 bloody pound of the damn things to be presice! also watered everything cos my soil is looking somewhat akin to a dried and drought ridden african river bed a week before the rainy season is due to start!!!

This afternoon the sun was shining and the birds were singing and i could practically watch the bloody bind weed grownin in front of my very eyes! However i managed to win a battle agains the weeds that were swapming the brocoli - which is only starting to get florets on it WOOOWOO. Also pulled up a lot of nettles and nettle roots - always good in short sleeves.

Everything is going really well actually. The carrots i sowed in the empty ground left by the potatoes have srung up - not sure they will amount to anything but i'm not loosing anything trying. Both the savoy and the red cabbage are hearting up nicely - won't be long before i can harvest them!! the brussels are coming along nicely and will be ready before xmas as well - oh joy.

EERRRMMMM The caulis are looking good, as are the swede, catapillar attack not withstanding. I hoes a leek but that seems to be part of the course for me at the moment.

And a bit of a mystery - there are hundreds of dead slugs all over my allotment. I havebt used any nematodes os wondering what is happening there, not that i am complaining about dead slugs!

15th August - Blight Saturday

I have potato blight - stinky nasty slimy potato blight - 1 in 10 of my tubers have had to be thrown away and i would imagine in the coming weeks i will have to throw a lot of the sotred ones away as well.

Have had to dig my main crop even though they should be in the ground until october and all my second earlies are up and out. fingers crossed that the tatties in storaged will keep ok.

gutted

Sorry a bit of a catch up!

Everything is doing really well. Been down this evening and collected my first runner beans, probably enough for a couple of nights dinners if we are not too greedy!

The weeds have taken over recently and i really need to spend some time ripping roots out and burning dried weeds, am growing quite a nice patch of dock leaves so must get around to doing that!!!

other than that nothing terribly exciting to report. the bloke oppistie has picked the monster tomoato since last sunday so that highlight has now gone :(

oh well - where is my weeding fork?,.......