As usual this time of year there are images of lots of allotment sites and plots under water, covered in snow or greenhouses covered in hard frost.
Today there have been many a photo on Facebook gardening groups of digital thermometers in such frost or snow covered greenhouses recording min temperature over night of between -7 to -8C
In my neck of the woods, and on my particular allotment, we don't suffer too much with flooding apart form poor old John who plot has flooded once this year. John managed to cut a shallow gully across the path so his plot drains into the empty plot next door that has been out of action since 2015 when Japanese knotweed was found.
In my neck of the woods, and on my particular allotment, we don't suffer too much with flooding apart form poor old John who plot has flooded once this year. John managed to cut a shallow gully across the path so his plot drains into the empty plot next door that has been out of action since 2015 when Japanese knotweed was found.
The council have bodged the treatment of plot 9 and have never managed to clear Japanese knotweed from the plot so it can be tenanted again. We are hoping this year might be the last year of treatment and the plot can be divided and tenanted again.
With -4C over night and only reaching 1C mid day and ice on the roofs of properties, roads pathways and all over the car this morning, I was not feeling the urge to go to the allotment today.
Yesterday I manged to win a cross-cut shredder off Freecycle which will produce smaller worm and composting friendly brown material for my Daleks than my current strip-cut machine.
It also means that it will compact in sacks better and will be easier to store on the allotment until it is needed to be added to the Daleks with greens.
So today I have been working for the allotment, and not on the allotment.
With -4C over night and only reaching 1C mid day and ice on the roofs of properties, roads pathways and all over the car this morning, I was not feeling the urge to go to the allotment today.
Yesterday I manged to win a cross-cut shredder off Freecycle which will produce smaller worm and composting friendly brown material for my Daleks than my current strip-cut machine.
It also means that it will compact in sacks better and will be easier to store on the allotment until it is needed to be added to the Daleks with greens.
So today I have been working for the allotment, and not on the allotment.
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