As usual this time of year the weather is very Wintery and there are images on 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 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, but he 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 and have never managed to clear it off the plot so it can be 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.
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, but he 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 and have never managed to clear it off the plot so it can be 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.
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