The Kindness Of Plot Neighbours

 

It's not always been the case, in the past we had a couple of plot holders who caused lots of trouble and fell out with many of the other plot holders. In my time as the Mill Green Site Rep (2012 - today) I have seen a lot of plot holders come and go. 

The ones that don't realise just how much work is involved in keeping on top of things and the amount of hours need to be sunk into ones plot. 

I always think of John, Wally and myself as bit like the three old blokes in The Last Of The Summer Wine, I'm not quite sure which one of us is Compo but I have my suspicions. 

Wally very kindly popped to my home and picked up Runner Beans, Climbing French Beans and Dwarf French beans, and has cleared the bindweed off the fencing of the climbing framed greenhouse. He has weeded the beds in the CFG, and sown the beans for me, so that I will have something to harvest when I finally get back to the plot. 

Wally also sent me these photographs that show potatoes growing in the raised beds, that John planted for me as I didn't get time to plant them in buckets as intended before I became ill.  I had hydrated the coir blocks and was about to mix with compost and soil but that didn't happen. 

John weeded the beds, they had mares tail and bindweed in them despite all the removal of weed roots I had done when constructing them.

Other plot holders have helped me to lift bags of compost as I have arthritis in all my joints following the cancer treatment in late 2023 and a hernia from lifting my wife who had lupus before she passed away in January 2023.

We have a great bunch of plot holders on Mill green who are willing to help each other out, we share any glut of young plants and any harvest later in the season. 

The girls got a no-cult for long grass, and I had a push mower that I got off Freecycle and don't use, so I gave it to the girls so they could cut their grass. I'm a Ryobi man so I use a battery strimmer.   

I can no longer manage two half plots, so that's why I'm giving up plot 1A and the end of this growing years (September) I have already found a home for my green house on plot 1A.

I need to find out if I can transplant my grape vines from plot 1A to Plot 1 or take cuttings.