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Post by carrie on Jun 10, 2007 20:08:33 GMT 1
i've got one(ish)!!!!!!!!!!!
my parents are really behind with theirs, so they are giving me a couple of beds!
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Post by petra on Jun 10, 2007 21:18:35 GMT 1
Fantastic. Congratulations - I know how long you've wanted one.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jun 11, 2007 12:26:54 GMT 1
Feel free to pop round my parents for tea, etc, I'm sure they won't mind.
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Post by carrie on Jun 12, 2007 18:49:49 GMT 1
digging..........tired.............
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Post by mooominmama on Jun 14, 2007 4:55:39 GMT 1
hey havent you heard... modern gardening is great, no-one bothers digging anymore, they say its bad for the soil, so i say it too!!
theres nothing better than eating something youve grown, its amazing that i was never excited about things like broad beans before...and beetroot...brill!
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Post by carrie on Jun 14, 2007 11:08:29 GMT 1
hee thaat's why i cut corners, the soil is really clay. it's so exciting.
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Post by carrie on Jun 15, 2007 14:32:22 GMT 1
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Post by stuhuggett on Jun 15, 2007 20:41:22 GMT 1
Those transparent crooked Tory bastards...Again!
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Post by carrie on Jun 19, 2007 18:21:00 GMT 1
we have lettuce, tomatoes, and runner beans growing (out of the ground! like plants! but of food!) today i planted beetroot and spring onions.
a salad i tell you!
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Post by stuhuggett on Jun 19, 2007 19:24:18 GMT 1
And next year a housing estate, I tell you!
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Post by carrie on Jun 20, 2007 12:23:46 GMT 1
Those transparent crooked Tory bastards...Again! interestingly (to me, at least) after being told repeatedly there are no vacant plots in hastings, i have just read a council report from last week stating that the upper clive vale has 1 of 18 plots tenanted and lower clive vale is uncultivated. these sites would not suffer from change of use! |
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Post by carrie on Jun 23, 2007 21:01:38 GMT 1
i am 5th on the marina list, they reckon something will come up soon, especially as i'm more than happy to accept something in need of loads of work.
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Post by carrie on Jul 19, 2007 18:11:54 GMT 1
on sunday i hand over £2.10 and one is mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's little but has a shed, established fruit bushes, established asparagus, a litttle paved area and it's quite near the gate so fairly east to get felix in and out.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 19, 2007 18:30:26 GMT 1
£2.10?! That is cheap...
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Post by carrie on Jul 19, 2007 20:24:59 GMT 1
membership fee, rent in october, technically the plot isn't available 'til then but they're willing to let me start working it now, seeing as it will only grow more weeds if it's left.
i.am.so.excited!!!!!!
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Post by caroline on Jul 19, 2007 20:41:57 GMT 1
Yay, at last! Am v. pleased for you!
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Post by carrie on Jul 19, 2007 21:14:50 GMT 1
and one day, i may give you some beetroot wine! but only after i move to a much bigger home to accomodate wine-making.
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Post by mooominmama on Jul 19, 2007 21:46:49 GMT 1
yippee!! well done you...can we be allotment buddies or something... be nice to talk to someone other than old men (well the old man in the allotment next door) 'bout whats growing....  |
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Post by carrie on Aug 28, 2007 20:41:43 GMT 1
we had 10 runner beans from the allotment for dinner, they were good.
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Post by carrie on Sept 19, 2007 21:40:00 GMT 1
sunday - we picked...loads of runner beans, 16 spring onions, 8 beetroot  monday - went digging - dug out loads of weeds, unwanted asparagus (  too much for a wee plot), created a bed for the remaining asparagus! it's looking more like an allotment than wasteland now. tuesday - did battle with rogue blackberry, more weed clearing. wednesday - i have what can only be known as digging thumbs, pain betwixt my thumbs and wrists (typing hurts). nb i still keep finding masses of ants, almost every time i put a trowel in i unearth 50 (really) of the little bastards, now i fear they're going to try and get me...they know i've run out of ant-killer |
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Post by carrie on Jun 18, 2008 21:47:40 GMT 1
11 months on...
red,white and blackcurrants growing well (although it would appear the 5 i dug out over winter were red leaving me with 4 whitecurrant bushes, bah), as are gooseberries, runner beans, courgettes. growing half successfully aubergines and sweetcorn (planted loads ages ago, only one survived, planted more and we're up to 5 seedlings). failing like an novice are the peas (none have taken, but the bindweed likes the poles) and lettuce (they must keep getting slugged).
still having ant trouble, they are still EVERYWHERE. in the last two days (total 4 hours at 'lotment) i (and tom) have dug out four nests. mostly we've chucked them on the communal green waste pile, today i cruelly tried drowning them and their eggs, it doesn't work, they can crawl out of a bucket full of water ant organic ant killer.
in more shocking news, my dear boyfriend helped me dig a hole. tom+spade=quite good really. and he did the important bit of making sure it was square and level at the bottom.
sorry for being exceptionally boring, but i ended on a high (i should have taken a photograph) picture this, tom digging, it's a first.
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Post by carolyn on Mar 22, 2009 20:39:12 GMT 1
Having cleared about 10 bags of unwanted plants from the garden over the last week I'm rather pleased with myself. I've had little interest or talent in this area but it is rather satisfying to clear a whole area - we can now walk around to the back of the garden!
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Post by carrie on Mar 25, 2009 0:04:06 GMT 1
hooray!
having dug another big trench for a raised bed and got rid of some red and white currant plants i feel more optimistic about the allotment but it does look recently bombed, but hey we have lots of seeds planted here, it'll get there.
carolyn, are you guys going to grow stuff?
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Post by carolyn on Apr 5, 2009 10:23:10 GMT 1
I'm not sure we're ready to grow anything - at the moment all efforts are on trying to stop things growing!
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too much for a wee plot), created a bed for the remaining asparagus! it's looking more like an allotment than wasteland now.