Shamelessly bragging I know, but I just got 2nd prize for best allotment at our site. And I couldn't be more proud and happy about that 🤣 I'm absolutely chuffed! I've not taken any photos recently but I'll try remember to tomorrow #allotment #gardening

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I'm going to have to look for the Tropicana rose! ❤️

My 12yr old nephew now has one of the beds on my allotment after playing one and wanting to give it a go for real. I don't know how long it will last 😂 but I think that's pretty cool

Prodigiously proud of myself 😂 first time I've grown carrots and tbh I'm just 100% dead chuffed Ive got any at all! #allotment #gardening

Despite all the bad days and mean people, I still believe in good days and kind people. Plus, there are always dogs.

Today's harvest. I'm really happy with the potatoes (these are from 3 plants). I've been picking strawberries for a while - they've been amazing this year. I'm high up in the peak district, so far more still to come from the plot in time 😁 #allotment

What an amazing bloke ❤️

Thank you ❤️

Thank you ❤️

A selection of rose flowers, from top left and around the border is Wollerton Old Hall, Tottering by gently, Royal Jubilee, the Pilgrim, Wollerton Old Hall, Eustacia Vye, Gertrude Jekyll, Buttercup and in the middle a close up of Eustacia Vye flower

All my David Austin roses ❤️
#rosewednesday

Frost forecast tonight ❄️ I've just put away the fleece too. Out it goes again 🙄

I've got a water barrel I filled a few days ago, I'll give it another few days maybe, just to be sure. I was worrying as I'm sure I heard you can get algal bloom using tap water.

First early potatoes

Brassicas & lettuce under mesh, spinach, beetroot and onions at the front

Mixed veg bed - onions, beetroot, black radish, carrots

Rosakrone peas

Today at the allotment #2 ❤️ #allotment

Garlic

Basic rainfall collection system using the plastic bags compost came in

Strawberry patch

Newly planted pumpkins and bush beans in a mixed veg & herb bed

Today at the allotment #1 ❤️ #allotment

Advice needed! Wildlife pond filled with rainwater 1st Apr. It's not rained since, the water level is ~15cm lower than it should be, the pond is 50cm at its deepest. Loads of plants, including oxygenators. A frogs moved in already ❤️ Q - should I top it up with tap water? #wildlifepond #allotment

Remote control.

Oh that's fantastic!! 😁 Thank you!! It's the first time I've seen it and it caught me by surprise - i didn't expect them to find the pond so quickly! So I'm absolutely thrilled no matter what it is!!

Build it and they'll come!! Toad (?I think) in the pond at the allotment, only built it 1 month ago!! Am absolutely thrilled!! 🐸 He/she's welcome to each and ever slug available!

I'm sat in a car park waiting for my parents to arrive back from an afternoon cream tea on a steam train. They're late because "the track embankment is on fire and the train driver and staff are trying to put it out". OK then 😳

#SixOnSaturday Geraniums, Nemesia, Foxgloves, Columbine, Jacob’s Ladder, Nemophila Five Spot and more of our gorgeous Mancunian blue sky on the balcony!!
🌱🌿🩵💜🤍💙🌿🌱 #EastCoastKin #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #bluesky #photography #FlowerReport #Manchester #sunshine #springtime #MyBalcony

A chart showing global temperature change in the atmosphere and ocean from 1960 to 2024. It's clear that much of the atmosphere and the ocean have warmed significantly in recent decades.

This chart, included in the latest paper published by @edhawkins.org, makes clear just how quickly our planet is warming 🧪

🐝 🐝 we are covered in bees 🐝 🐝

Ken 🫡

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Things are starting to get a little greener up at the allotment 🌱 potatoes were a tiny bit frost damaged last night, just a few and at the tips where they touched the fleece. But all things considered, doing ok 😁 #allotment

Close up picture of a tree trunk surrounded by ocean waves

"Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine" -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#nature #photography #artsky #beach

My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock

As usual, the Guardian closed comments on this before I could say so over there, so I'll say it here: this is really very good indeed. Thank you, Sheila Hancock.
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New Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns vows to sack council's diversity officers - except there aren't any Dame Andrea Jenkyns has doubled down on Farage's pledge to sack diversity officers in Lincolnshire but the county council has revealed it does not employ any David Maddox Political Editor • Saturday 03 May 2025 15:29 BST

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