at the allotment day 23: burn baby burn!

we 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 on top, which i may do next time!

we’re still fighting the horsetail, we rarely see any couch grass which makes me wonder why people complain about it so much. i spent a good deal of the time weeding near the potatoes which appear to be suffering from a magnesium shortage (they’re going yellow and blotchy).

the next photos are of the beetroot, lettuce, sweetcorn and purple podded peas. everything is looking fab. we harvested one of the lettuces last weekend and we’re impressed by how long it kept.

after much grief from plants and seedlings drying and dying out in the greenhouse, we finally came up with a solution. by sticking all the pots in a seeding/gravel tray they retain the water.

the result of which was that we finally have some courgettes to plant out!

mrs booyaa added more flowers to the “blue” border

finally we came up with a novel use for our leaky tea pot, stick some lobelia in it!