Greetings.
Got out on Plot yesterday! Hooray. Managed to plant toms which I received through the post. (Grafted) Thinned out and transplanted dozens of turnip plants. Interesting as we don't eat turnips. Never mind. I'm sure we'll find a use for them.They seem to be thriving on my manure mix.
A big rat hole/ run appeared from the bottom fence. I don't know if it's worth doing anything about as no doubt there'll be other members of the rat family about. Poison or not to poison that is the question.
Put more beans out - hopefully these ones won't die. Maris spuds looking good. Took advice to spray for blight from Chris. But no doubt I'll have to do it again soon as it hasn't stopped raining today. It's like bloomin Winter!
Had a good "free stuff" haul too. 60 slabs. Brill. And the builder, Jerry, is my new best friend! Gonna give me wood and stuff left over hopefully. You never know when stuff'll be useful.
Me "breakfast spuds" (the ones I planted last year which got blight and produced dozens to tiny spuds) have chitted in my cupboard. I'd totally forgotton about them. I'm gonna put them in and see what happens. I know they're small but who knows?
Pip confessed to leaving the mystery plants I found. They are raspberries. Hopefully they'll take.
We'll that's about it for this weekend. Another week of work and then I'm off on my holls for a week in France. I hope the sun comes out!
Keep on enjoying.
Abetot.
Sunday 29 April 2012
Wednesday 25 April 2012
I mean it......
Greetings
I do! Enough's enough now. Desist. Me poor lotment will be washed away.
Abetot
I do! Enough's enough now. Desist. Me poor lotment will be washed away.
Abetot
Monday 23 April 2012
Sunday 22 April 2012
Update
Greetings
Well what a week - Boxwood sold out. Puts a few quid to lotment expences so I'm quite pleased with myself. Just need to do it another three times and the Plot is paid for the year. Gotta source more product. Wood...it doesn't grow on trees..oh...yes it does!
There's been a lot of water this week and more forecast. Good! Been quite lucky this weekend though as it's been quite nice! Pip gave me a small bag of maincrop...alto something or othrers. Gone straight in. And he's given me some raspberries! Also on the plus side I've got me some butternut squashes ( from car boot) and a couple of pumpkins also from Pip again. And having given a trailer load of horse to Peter I got two plum tomato plants. Result all round.
Done yet more digging as I've decided to dig up the central path...grass doesn't belong on an allotment!
Out on the plot things growing well especially the turnips. Gonna thin them out and replant. Strawberries are flowering and begining to set. Brill. The only other disappointment ( apart from the darn spuds) are my runners - put them out too early and they got burnt. Luckilly I've plenty more. My neighbours were putting theirs out so I'll try again next week.
It's all good. Catch you all later. (forgot the camera so pickies next week)
Abetot.
Well what a week - Boxwood sold out. Puts a few quid to lotment expences so I'm quite pleased with myself. Just need to do it another three times and the Plot is paid for the year. Gotta source more product. Wood...it doesn't grow on trees..oh...yes it does!
There's been a lot of water this week and more forecast. Good! Been quite lucky this weekend though as it's been quite nice! Pip gave me a small bag of maincrop...alto something or othrers. Gone straight in. And he's given me some raspberries! Also on the plus side I've got me some butternut squashes ( from car boot) and a couple of pumpkins also from Pip again. And having given a trailer load of horse to Peter I got two plum tomato plants. Result all round.
Done yet more digging as I've decided to dig up the central path...grass doesn't belong on an allotment!
Out on the plot things growing well especially the turnips. Gonna thin them out and replant. Strawberries are flowering and begining to set. Brill. The only other disappointment ( apart from the darn spuds) are my runners - put them out too early and they got burnt. Luckilly I've plenty more. My neighbours were putting theirs out so I'll try again next week.
It's all good. Catch you all later. (forgot the camera so pickies next week)
Abetot.
Sunday 15 April 2012
Week ending......
Greetings.
Well it's been a great week off I've just had. And it's finished off lovely. Warm and sunny. Done lots more chopping today and now we have four binfulls of kindling wood. Just deciding how to package it. Been doing some more market research and down the Garage - part of a large chain in Jersey (say no more) - and it's £5.77 a bag. Crikey! So I think for the same amount of wood I'm going to put a price of £3.00 on mine. Fair enough? Stop me and buy some!
On the Plot things are still coming along. I received a gift of something from someone. I think they're berries of some kind. I've put them in and we'll see.
I dug half my spuds and got about 10 lbs. Tragic!
Back to work tomorrow......
Keep on enjoying.....Abetot.
Well it's been a great week off I've just had. And it's finished off lovely. Warm and sunny. Done lots more chopping today and now we have four binfulls of kindling wood. Just deciding how to package it. Been doing some more market research and down the Garage - part of a large chain in Jersey (say no more) - and it's £5.77 a bag. Crikey! So I think for the same amount of wood I'm going to put a price of £3.00 on mine. Fair enough? Stop me and buy some!
On the Plot things are still coming along. I received a gift of something from someone. I think they're berries of some kind. I've put them in and we'll see.
I dug half my spuds and got about 10 lbs. Tragic!
Back to work tomorrow......
Keep on enjoying.....Abetot.
Saturday 14 April 2012
Grand Day
Greetings.
Well it's been an interesting day. Steve gave me a hand to collect some pallets but Steve's van became not very well and we had to use the Jaloppy. Good ole Jaloppy! The idea is to go into kindling wood production or as I like to call it Bob's Boxwood. You know...getting something for free and making a turn out of it using nothing but time and effort....oh yes that's it.....work. And quite successful we are at it. After a somewhat basic start...using a hammer and nail bar we soon decided that Power tools are the best thing. With a bit of chopping and sawing and then a bit of hand axing (that's fun!) we managed to make a bin full. There's a bit of by product..all the bits with nails in but its a small price to pay. A bag full of boxwood is £3.80 in the shops and thats about three big double hands full! I don't see me retiring on it but if I can make a few quid it'll go to the 'lotment expences and every littly helps to balance the books....which gives me an idea to keep a little black book of accounts. Watch this space! The afternoon came to a fairly abrupt halt when there was an enormous clap of thunder a flash of lightening and a spot or two of rain but wierdly not that much.
Anyway it was an excuse to go home for the main event of today....The Grand National. The usual flurry of picking several horses with made up names and ten minutes of mad shouting....quite exciting really and our nag led from the start ....only to be overtaken two jumps from home. Darn it! Oh well...next year Rodney.
Looking forward to tomorrow to do some more chopping and to catch up on t'lotment.
Abetot for now as we say in Jerri.
Well it's been an interesting day. Steve gave me a hand to collect some pallets but Steve's van became not very well and we had to use the Jaloppy. Good ole Jaloppy! The idea is to go into kindling wood production or as I like to call it Bob's Boxwood. You know...getting something for free and making a turn out of it using nothing but time and effort....oh yes that's it.....work. And quite successful we are at it. After a somewhat basic start...using a hammer and nail bar we soon decided that Power tools are the best thing. With a bit of chopping and sawing and then a bit of hand axing (that's fun!) we managed to make a bin full. There's a bit of by product..all the bits with nails in but its a small price to pay. A bag full of boxwood is £3.80 in the shops and thats about three big double hands full! I don't see me retiring on it but if I can make a few quid it'll go to the 'lotment expences and every littly helps to balance the books....which gives me an idea to keep a little black book of accounts. Watch this space! The afternoon came to a fairly abrupt halt when there was an enormous clap of thunder a flash of lightening and a spot or two of rain but wierdly not that much.
Anyway it was an excuse to go home for the main event of today....The Grand National. The usual flurry of picking several horses with made up names and ten minutes of mad shouting....quite exciting really and our nag led from the start ....only to be overtaken two jumps from home. Darn it! Oh well...next year Rodney.
Looking forward to tomorrow to do some more chopping and to catch up on t'lotment.
Abetot for now as we say in Jerri.
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Water!
Greetings.
Following rain there is water. Following water one needs a water feature and heere it is..........
SPUDS! Grouville Royals. Yeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Almost enough for a feed.
Keep enjoying. Abetot.
Following rain there is water. Following water one needs a water feature and heere it is..........
Bobs new water butt....1000 lts...what a beauty!
and there's another in the pipeline...geddit?
I'm gonna give the spuds another week and then I'm gonna dig the lot up. They were not very good. I do blame myself though for reasons previously expressed. That said lookie what I dug up today...................................................................................................
Keep enjoying. Abetot.
Monday 9 April 2012
Rain Rain Rain!
Greetings
And Happy Birthday to me!And at last a day of beautiful rain! So it's a day in nursing a small hangover and watching Streisand back to back.
Happy Bank Holliday. Oh and Hello South Korea!!!
Abetot
And Happy Birthday to me!And at last a day of beautiful rain! So it's a day in nursing a small hangover and watching Streisand back to back.
Happy Bank Holliday. Oh and Hello South Korea!!!
Abetot
Saturday 7 April 2012
Easter Sat
Easter Greetings.
Well it's been a fairly quiet week with the usual attendance for H2Oing. And we have a result! Oh yes as it's my Aniversaire on Monday I have received a Butt and I hope another will soon arrive. Immense joy as soon I won't have to fill up the bottles anymore. Thank you Jane and Steve and Mark and Michelle.
In the meantime my Maris Pipers are peeping through and beetroot and some Raniculusses. On the downside critters are still munching away on my Broads and my Runners are looking unwell. But on the whole the rest are making up for it.
Here's the latest!
Well it's been a fairly quiet week with the usual attendance for H2Oing. And we have a result! Oh yes as it's my Aniversaire on Monday I have received a Butt and I hope another will soon arrive. Immense joy as soon I won't have to fill up the bottles anymore. Thank you Jane and Steve and Mark and Michelle.
In the meantime my Maris Pipers are peeping through and beetroot and some Raniculusses. On the downside critters are still munching away on my Broads and my Runners are looking unwell. But on the whole the rest are making up for it.
Here's the latest!
Happy Easter and Abetot!
Monday 2 April 2012
Daily Grind
Greetings.
Well it's been a bit of a mixed weekend. I sorta caught a 24 hour cold on Saturday night and felt a bit off on Sunday but I did get down the Plot and built my runner bean goalpost net thing. So beans in and the sun came out and everything. There's talk of an official drought which means 15 days without rain....doesn't sound a lot but when you're watering by the 1.5 lt bottle I assure you it is!
That all said green things are still green - haven't been eaten by critters yet or killed off by anything else so I'm pretty pleased. Just need to sort out the longer term water problem.....and get some fertliser....and think of new things to sow....and prepare for the bee hive....and finish the fence.....
Abetot.
Well it's been a bit of a mixed weekend. I sorta caught a 24 hour cold on Saturday night and felt a bit off on Sunday but I did get down the Plot and built my runner bean goalpost net thing. So beans in and the sun came out and everything. There's talk of an official drought which means 15 days without rain....doesn't sound a lot but when you're watering by the 1.5 lt bottle I assure you it is!
That all said green things are still green - haven't been eaten by critters yet or killed off by anything else so I'm pretty pleased. Just need to sort out the longer term water problem.....and get some fertliser....and think of new things to sow....and prepare for the bee hive....and finish the fence.....
Abetot.
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