When life sends you Lemons, just bake a cake

Lemon_Tree

had my last committee meeting yesterday for the allotment, now i can just attend as a heckler

i'm hoping for dry weather tomorrow so that i can get to the allotment and start to tackle the weeds. Was unintentionally made to feel very guilty about the state of our plot. oops

Lemon_Tree

well we didn't get the dry weather but i did get to B&Q and bought some plants/trees. I know some pooh pooh their plants but i've never had a duff one yet.
bought some fruit trees and a thornless blackberry bush, along with some seed spuds, lavender, rosemary and chives.

we also bought some paint for our living room. Was given the helpfull information that white vinegar will remove the mould linked to the damp issues, and that if we mix some water with pva glue and paint that on the walls before decorating it does pretty much the same job as anti damp paint but for a fraction of the cost. I've got loads of vinegar so will start with that tomorrow.
It's suposed to be dry tomorrow so i am going to get up the lottie and take phot's. I really want to scrap a year in the life of the allotment so i can see the progress we've made and so i have a memory of when seeds were planted, what grew and what didn't grow etc.

Lemon_Tree

got to the allotment today, only really took some photos but at least it's not as bad as this time last year, gives me hope that we will get it under control. We did spot 4 of the elephant garlic plants that didn't appear last year, and some rather woody curly kale which we pulled up and have fed to the animals. They think they're tasty.

our infamous plot


look hard enough and you'll see garlic


yummy kale for the animals

The_Dragon

Oooh well done! Hopefully you will have that sorted out and planted up in no time!

Lemon_Tree

also planted some tomato seeds today and some onion sets to give them an early start (the onions that is). A drop in the ocean but a start.

elantan

Wow your garlic is atleast 3 times the size of mine ..... Probably alot more tbh .... So I think I will pop on down for those lessons after all lol

Lemon_Tree

el, we planted our garlic last year, and then it didn't appear to even grow, i was mega surprised to see any today

chevalier

good luck with you lotty growing . it doesn't seem to be something that you get over here, ie allotments... i guess that it is because house plots were so big in the old days
chev

elantan

I planted some at the tail end of last year and it's barely popped up lol ...... Nothing to do with my gardening ofcourse

Pippilongstocking

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

i guess it's time to get on amazon and see if there's a 'how to identify weeds' book. either that or i can invite Pippi and the stripey ones down for a holibob.

I have such a book.....! Post pics and I'll tell you for free though!

Lot tie pics look great - brilliant news on the garlic and the seed/set planting. I started off my shallots in seed trays on Saturday too need to do my onions!!