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In March I struggled to get 17 Dahlia tubers to sprout.then at allotment planting time I wrote. the name and position in my notepad. Now I count 29 and I have no record of numbers 1 and 2 as well as 16 to 20. ? Black hole, strong drink or old age or a combination of all three.

16.06.2025 15:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Time for a sit down and, a rest in the polytunnel. Best part of being on the allotment.

11.03.2025 07:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Coring out a hole in sharp sand to fill with compost

Making the hole deeper with a metal rod

Home made funnel for the compost

8 carrots per barrel of sand

Nice day for sowing some long carrots on the, #allotment

11.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

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The whole frame is then anchored with metal spikes I also had spare.
The effect, I hope, is to keep the tunnel away from the earth and also to stop it sinking in.

09.01.2025 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I had some lengths of plastic decking boards spare from a project last summer along with a load of 2 inch square 1 metre long spindles from the balustrade (also plastic) so I used them to make a base to sit the metal frame on and also to fix it to with cable ties.

09.01.2025 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wooden door frame behind plastic cover

Stapled the plastic to my door frame and then trimmed with some spare bits of timber I found on the allotment.
Next job is to cut out the plastic where the door and then make said door.

09.01.2025 13:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Polytunnel cover on.

After a long gap finally got the cover on the polytunnel in the sunshine down the allotment. Now preparing to fix the bottom with roofing batten screwed on to the base rail.
Used some stick on tape from first tunnels to form a barrier between the metal frame and the plastic.

09.01.2025 13:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Base of door frame waiting for postcrete to dry

Cable tie holding top of door frame to polytunnel frame

Finished off the polytunnel base at the allotment and fixed in the two doors using postcrete at one end and cable ties at the top. Meant I had to cut the metal tubing... Gulp

09.12.2024 14:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One soggy allotment

The #allotmentlife is like a pudding but at least the spikes to hold down the polytunnel go in easy

28.11.2024 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Polytunnel frame cable tied to plastic decking base and sitting on baklusrade post

The frame is cable tied to the decking and sits on the balustrade rail

28.11.2024 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Plastic decking and plastic balustrade posts to use as base for polytunnel

Started erecting my cheapo polytunnel from Temu. Going to use some plastic ballustrading and solid plastic decking that I over ordered in the summer.

28.11.2024 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lets talk about water - because water is life & right now in Britain it’s on life support

If you share my outrage join me & thousands of others on SUNDAY 3RD NOV from 11am in central London for #MARCHFORCLEANWATER

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20.10.2024 15:47 — 👍 103    🔁 44    💬 3    📌 1

Star warts

17.10.2024 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HILLCREST Candy

Charlie 2

Tom Mclelland

Ryecroft Gold

Forgot to include the magic word allotment on my last post. So here are dahlias on my plot in Hythe, HAMPSHIRE #allotmentlife #dhalias

13.10.2024 11:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dahlia Tom Mclelland

DAHLIA Hillcrest candy

Dahlia Charlie 2

Dahlias still flowering on Southampton Waterside and one still has blackfly. Looking at you Tom Mclelland

Hillcrest Candy struggling on
And Charlie 2

13.10.2024 10:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Knocked down an old fruitframe and started clearing where the cheapo polytunnel is going. Impulse buy from a certain Chinese website with 4 letters. #allotmentlife #temutome

11.10.2024 14:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Note to self. When filling barrels for long carrots on the allotment spend a bit more time making them mares tail proof

11.10.2024 11:47 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0