Stuart T

Harvest of leeks, aubergine, tomatoes, garlic, onions and raspberries.

Still getting a lot from the allotment. Most of the outdoor tomatoes have been harvested, lots of cherry tomatoes left still under cover to go.

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This seems like such an obvious thing to do, why wasn’t it made a standard years ago?

When I’m next in Harborne I’ll I’ll look to venture to The Bell

That looks magnificent, where is it?

£7 a point is pretty common in Birmingham nowadays.

Our black Norwegian Forest cat striking a dramatic pose

Coco being dramatic (probably wanting Dreamies) #caturday #NorwegianForestCat

Does this include the UK or is this another Brexit benefit?

Well done America you have your own mad king!

I seem to remember Duo offering MFA for OWA, thankfully we moved off on-prem Exchange to Exchange online a few years ago.

One thing that I can’t get my head around was the remarkable lack of curiosity by UK journalists about the relationship between Mandelson and Epstein.

Home made gooseberry jam from allotment which came first in the jam category at the end of season show

Prize winning cherry tomatoes from this years allotment show

First prize for my gooseberry jam and a first prize for cherry tomatoes at the allotment show, they also got a 2nd place in the best veg overall

For some reason our harvest this year was dreadful, it was difficult to keep up watering everything. The gigantes beans we’ve grown for the second year also weren’t as good as a harvest as last year.

What a ball of floof!

Yep

At least it’s not pumpkin spice seasoning!

I can’t think of anything the council has done for #CarFreeDay, the expressway thing does ring a bell though.

Did you ever do the Sky ride thing they put on for a couple of years - going through the old smelly wholesale markets wasn’t fun!

Digital security and privacy advice is a Promethean task

Perhaps it’s too scare away visitors?

Celeriac pants in allotment

Ours look in a similar state to yours, hopefully any harvest we get wont be riddled with slugs like last years

Thanks, I’ll give it a go with some of our chillies

Do you have any tips for overwintering them?

It’s a good place to escape to that’s for sure!

It’s a full sized plot, I think around 5m x 30m. There are 2 of us who share it and we have a fair amount of perennials - asparagus, tayberries, raspberries, gooseberries.

For me it’s around 1/2 an hour each day Monday-Friday and a few hours over the weekend. Most of the time at the moment seems to be taken up by watering!
Our site does have the benefit of having a bar run by volunteers which makes it pretty easy to pop by at the weekend.
Today’s harvest

A harvest of aubergines, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, basil and onions from allotment

Quite the harvest from the allotment today #moorgreenlaneallotments #plot66moorgreen

Bees gathering nectar from an artichoke flower at an allotment

Bees going wild for the artichoke flower at the allotment

There was another sweeper on the route this mornng, the leaf debris between Priory Rd and Sir Harrys looks to mostly have been cleared. Maybe the gravel will get cleared next week - though tbh I'm suprised a road sweeper can't manage the whole of the route in a day.

In the 6 years I’ve been using the @a38cycleway.bsky.social I saw a road sweeper on it for the first time this morning, if I ride that way tomorrow I’m hoping all the gravel and leaf debris will have been swept away!