Thursday, 5 June 2025
Nice To See Some Rain
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Beds 15 & 16
Nice to see the Climbing French Beans making progress vertically and getting away from slug and snail territory
Longitudinal Apex braces cut drilled and fitted to the two raised beds on what was bed 15. A couple of the tomato plants have been moved out of the potting shed and placed under the netting.
More mares tail showing and removed from the un-netted Bed 15 before the hoops were installed. Bindweed pushed back along the Daleks behind bed 16 & 15.
Weeds coming up on the Asparagus beds again, I will have to bring the strimmer to the allotment and knock them back again.
Raised Bed 16 cleared of weeds, the spoil heap needs to be weeded and the humus material decanted into buckets and 30 litre plant pots with handles.
Spoil heap on the rest of bed 16 to be weeded and decanted into square flower buckets & 30 Litre plant pots with handles.
Typical I had given up on the Beetroots germinating and planted the dwarf beans and they both come up. Beetroots pinched out in favour of the dwarf French bean.
Monday, 2 June 2025
Late Watering Visit
No photos taken a swift late afternoon early evening visit to the allotment to water the the spuds in 30 litre plant pots with handles, the French climbing beans and burpless tasty green cucumbers in the climbing frame greenhouse, bed 15 again and the sowings and plants on the potting shed bench.
I did manage to get ex fireman Andy from plot 12 to lift my last 70 litre sack of peat based Clover out of my compost bunker and put it in a wheel barrow for me. I'm glad I can call on physically fit plot neighbours to help me.
Following the cancer I also have a yet unnamed autoimmune disease. There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases that affect a wide range of body parts. Autoimmune disease happens when they body's natural defense system can't tell the difference between your own cells and foreign cells, causing your body to to mistakenly attack normal cells.
This has left me with lack of strength, mobility issues and arthritis in all my joints. Tomorrow I go to see my consultant at St Georges hospital and will start my course of steroids, before reverting to autoimmune medication, and hopefully get some of my stamina, strength back and regain more mobility.
30 Litre Plant Pots With Handles
Oakland Gardens | Gardening Supplies for Home & Trade
Evri didn't send me the delivery time until the start time had expired, then they sent me an updated time for delivery 5 minutes after it had been delivered and with the same time stamp confirmation that the parcel had been delivered.
Sunday, 1 June 2025
Bed 15 & Climbing Frame Greenhouse
Planning and Reviewing June In Previous Years
Reviewing the diary over the last Twelve years for June
Mill Green - Runner beans planted out, sweetcorn planted out into beds mulched with cut comfrey, Sprouts planted out,
Spencer Road - Onions, Potatoes, Beetroots and infrastructure works.
Home - Tomatoes finally get transplanted into flower buckets.
- Greenhouse 1 - Currently being used to house all the cardboard to be used in the new raised beds, The Loft Conversion is failing and needs remedial works.
- Infrastructure - Convert standard 2.4m x 1.2m beds to 2 number 1.2 x 0.9m Raised beds with a path between for bed
- Greenhouse 1A - Set up more Coffee to dry out
- Daleks - Dig in the additional Dalek by the Hotbin
- Onions - Overwintering Onions and Shallots in weed bed as necessary.
- Apple Trees - Prune & Stabilise
- Grape Vines - Prune .
- Blueberry Ares - Weed and make a base then fence in using spare panel .
- Potatoes In Buckets - All Now Planted
- Beer Traps - Set Up More Beer Traps
Saturday, 31 May 2025
More Weeding
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Sunny and 25C today on the allotment. Watering in the potting shed and crops outside. Taking the Ryobi trimmer to the paths around the beds on plot 1 and up the main path of plot 1A.
Looking up the allotment from the square foot gardening beds on departure
View from in front of the plot 1 shed. paths trimmed again and Asparagus bed trimmed. Empty Square Flower buckets staked ready for decanting soil from bed 16.
Beds 15 front one with netting hoops and watering gullies to be installed. I have carrots to sow in that bed next visit.
Beds 15 front one with netting hoops and watering gullies to be installed. I need to find another two hoops for the bed on the left and make a top tie for the hoops next visit.
Asparagus bed trimmed and Empty 30 Litre buckets with handles with block or coir in and watered to hydrate.
Coir Blocks watered to hydrate, ready to add Clover Compost once I can find someone who can lift it out of my compost store for me. It's a 70 Litre sack of compost which weighs about 25kg, however now I have the yet unnamed autoimmune disease and arthritis in all my joints, they are now way to difficult for me to lift and carry. Three years ago I would have had little problem.
Climbing French beans in the climbing frame greenhouse beds watered. I trimmed the weeds inside on the path and outside on the path between plot 1 and plot 2
Square flower buckets of soil; moved away from the mesh wall to the climbing frame greenhouse and the mares tail that was growing along the kerb stones under the mesh panel were trimmed to leave no hiding places for slugs and snails.
Bindweed growing up the Raspberries needs removing as they are trying to extend to the neighboring line of raspberries.
Back of Rhubarb and back of the Climbing Frame Greenhouse needs clearing of bindweed and mares tail, job for another day.
Path and around Bed 16 trimmed. The mound of earth needs weeding and decanting into buckets ready for building the next section of raised beds.