🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🏴 🇵🇸 - Ecosocialism or Barbarism

Excellent kettle, maybe keep that one handy for the collapse.

The brushes look excellent, but will you be able to train your dog to use them 😂

I'm worried he'll go down harder.

Anti vaxxer, started hanging out with Julia Hatred-Spewer and Lozza Fox.

I liked moondance, but seeing as he turned into a miserable old right wing conspiracy theorist nutter I just couldn't.

Maybe it'll come down to how he reacts to Trump's abusive treatment.

Wimpole, the volunteer smirked as I took the picture.
Pig feeding time was good, but no lambs yet.

A selection of second hand books on war criminals including Tony Blair.

I'd prefer to see Blair in the ICC, but this was good to see in the second hand bookshop at a National Trust property today.

The UK played a major part in doing just what he recommends in 1953, and here we are.

Why not, why do the media always support every war?

Great, a recycled article from 2021, I suppose we should be grateful that you haven't churned out some AI slop for us.

Bloody awful places that mostly sell plastic pre-landfill crap and garden chemicals.

I'll let you know, I've heard they should be ready to harvest one month earlier than the ones I sowed in February, Japanese onions usually can't be stored for long, but they're only to keep us going until the main harvest is ready.

Japanese onion seedlings growing at the allotment.

Also for an earlier harvest, for the first time ever, I overwintered some Japanese onion seedlings that I sowed at the beginning of September and planted out in November.

A plastic box containing modules of onion seedlings.

These are the onion seedlings I'll be planting out at the allotment in mid-April, we've got all kinds, brown, Spanish, round red, long red, shallots and Paris silverskins, all growing well.
They're multi-sown, mostly with 2-4 seedlings per module to plant out in clumps because that's how we roll.

Yes, got to crack on, runner beans next week 😂

It would have caused havoc amongst my onions later in the season if it hadn't given its presence away.

Thanks!

Which varieties? Anything interesting to add to the excitement?

I used to grow De Monica a few years ago, it's interesting to compare how T & M describe the two varieties:
Express “The fastest maturing variety available”
De Monica “The earliest maturing broad bean variety”
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These were from Suttons, but I think others are also available. They should be earlier than the other two sorts, the plan is ideally not to have to process them all at the same time!

We had our last one yesterday, just enough for two bowls of soup.
I'm hoping to harvest leeks again in June, I sowed some of the Bulgarian Giant summer leeks I grow on New Year's day for an extra early harvest.

Broad bean plants being planted out in a bed at our allotment in two double rows of 23 plants each.

The first bed to be planted up this year at the allotment, these are "Express" broad bean plants, they should start to grow quickly over the next few days.
I'll plant out another bed with "Kamarzyn" beans later this week, then another with "Masterpiece Green Longpod" the week after. 🌱

To think only last week he was calling greens extremists for wanting people to have better lives, and now he's helping incinerate children.

Starmer called greens extremists and the next day he's helping the child killers.

I'm hopeful that it will work, I think it's encouraging that they have split into multiple plants.

I see lots of different sorts, but unlike you I don't have a clue what they all are!

Good shout, it's certainly up there. I also have a soft spot for the Gladiators' version, mostly because Trenchtown Mixup was part of the soundtrack to a hazy first summer at university.

This has been known for almost as long as I've been a vegetarian but still hardly any one cares.

I use up old peat free compost, including that which I've previously used for tomatoes in containers, for starting broad beans in modules, they don't really need a rich compost to get started and it means I enrich the beds at the allotment by getting the old compost down into them.