Thursday, 13 June 2013

I've Got an Allotment


Yes! I waited three years and now I've got one.

I hope one day my allotment looks like this. At the moment, it looks nothing like this.

What shall I sow first, apart from love? I may set up a special allotment blog so that green-fingered readers can keep up to date with what I hope will become a thing of great beauty.

It will need a shed of course. Every man needs a shed.

10 comments:

  1. How exciting! For a decorative start, you could plant a John Paul II clematis over the fence/hedge. I got one at B&Q last year. Nothing much happened then, but now it seems to be shooting up.

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  2. Where can you buy wheelbarrow seeds?

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  3. Leeks. Easy, robust plants, and many uses in cooking. We have leek soup once a week, takes less than 30 mins, filling, delicious and satisfying meal. I'd love to be able to use homegrown leeks.

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  4. Potatoes - good for the soil! Every man needs a shed, and a pipe!

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  5. I've got three spare runner bean plants, plus bamboo poles for a wigwam, if you'd like. And I'm local. It's not too late to get a few tomato plants in. But I expect the old-timers at the allotment will let you know what's do-able.
    You might even find an unwanted shed at freecycle!

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  6. "Leutgeb", at the Blog, "Bara Brith", will be a mine of information on Allotments. Once an Allotmenter, always an Allotmenter.

    As for Eccles' query, reference "Wheelbarrow Seeds", I can supply bags of them.

    Ask him to send a cheque, made out to "The Blackfen Minor Basilica Fund", and Wheelbarrow Seeds will follow.

    Honest.

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  7. Congratulations I have one as well a great escape to some solitude

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  8. Congratulations! Wonderful. Keep us
    posted. For us it will be very enjoyable. Hope very much it will
    be for you who has to do the work.
    I think it will prosper.

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  9. Bruvv, God will provide. He
    doesn't really approve of Monsantos
    He doesn't think they even deserve
    their name.

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  10. That's great! You'll be feeding half the parish by next year!

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