at the allotment days 15 to 18?

bank (public) holiday weekend

sorry guys, still not getting the hang of regular updates. this post is going to cover what we did for the 2nd may bank holiday. the shed was finally made safe (thanks arthur!), in addition to this we now have shelves, a drop leaf table and window (lionel gave us a bit of perspex to replace the broken one)

we also had 4 legged company in the form of tinker (mrs. booyaa’s parents’ dog)! with a bit of coaxing namely in the form of a dog biscuit we were able to get her to “bury” her treat along with the seeds we were planting.

this weekend

this saturday we came to the allotment to discover that the weeds have firmly established themselves, in particular the mares tail was in full force. we spent a good hour or so trying to get rid of the weeds that could be plucked out with little or no effort.

saturday before

whilst tidying in the shed i made a cloche totem to keep the plastic bottles out of the way until next year.

also now that the rasps and strawbs are starting to ripen we thought it was time to protect our fruit so we built a fruit cage.

sadly our joy was short lived, as lionel pointed out that because the netting was so close to the fruit, it would mean the birds (our primary pests) would have a perch on which to eat the fruit. so we would have to do some thinking and try again on sunday…

with the exception of the onions and taters we haven’t had much luck with the rest of the seeds we’ve trying to grow, but we did spot three carrots!

in addition to making the cloche totem, fruit cage, we also managed to make some scarers out of unwanted cds. also we laid some chip bark on the pathways. we’ll need to buy some more next weekend, but hopefully this will start supressing the weeds!

saturday after

sunday before

we dismantled the original fruit cage and made a better and improved one which had a bigger gap between the fruit and the netting. it feels slightly flimsy so a big assed pigeon or a keen squirrel might cause the whole structure to collapse.

i threw more mulch on the side paths as a makeshift cover until we get more chip bark.

mrs. booyaa planted out three sweet pea plants which she plans on training to climb against the new willow trellis we nailed to the side of the shed.