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First batch of onions harvested. These had all flopped over so were ready. All over wintered from sets. Not the biggest but will still get used.

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Swarm on the plot tonight looks like they’ve taken over an old colony in that tree.

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Peacock enjoying the chives today.

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Was gifted some ginger. First time grower hopefully get a crop.

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Lovely couple of hours on the plot today and first pick of asparagus.

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Allium Leaf Miner. It’s that time of year when the females start laying eggs. First sign is a row of dots on the leaves of your plants. I always take these off and destroy them. A real problem of a pest that’s spreading rapidly across the UK.
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Greenhouse sorted ready for season. Tomatoes and cucumbers planned for this greenhouse at the plot.

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One of my favourites Pink Fir Apple planted out in tubs today. Luckily I saved some tubers from last year’s crop as I’ve not found any online for sale at all this year.

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First batch of gutter peas out. These are Hurst green shaft.

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Picked mine up off gumtree a couple of years ago quite cheap.

Rotavated the five beds that I cleared last week. Ready for the season ahead.

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Beds four and five cleared and weeded with the added bonus of some missed parsnips.

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All sorts really. Spud’s brassicas corns root crops etc pretty much everything allotment wise we eat.

Two more beds cleared and weeded ready for turning over.

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It’s good to be getting down the plot after work even if it’s just an hour. Managed to weed one of the beds getting ready for turning over ready for the season.

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It was an old puncture repair. Even though it wasn’t bubbling in water I took off the patch and replaced it and it’s stayed up so far. I’m still looking to replace with a solid tyre though there’s just too many thorns down at the plot.

First batch of gutter peas in. These are Hurst Green Shaft left over from year. The mice had left me enough for two gutters.

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I find the odd bits from clay pipes on my plot and loads of pottery but our site has never been built on and was just fields before looking at old maps so wonder if at some point soil was brought in from elsewhere that had all these bits in.

First earlies planted in boxes in the polytunnel. Swift, Nicola, Rocket and Sharpes Express.

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Finally finished replacing the rotten boarding. Trod on a few rhubarb in the process so given a good feed and hopefully they’ll recover.

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Sorting out the edges on the bean bed that are rotten now. I wasn’t prepared for several miles of couch grass roots in that one little trench alone so has taken up some time. The new boards are plastic so I’ll get a good few years out of them but they are a real pain to cut to size.
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That had to be the most difficult and frustrating inner tube I’ve ever taken out and after all that not a single bubble yet it goes flat. Time to invest in a solid wheel for the wheelbarrow.

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Cold wet and miserable at the plot today. Harvested tomorrow’s stew ingredients. Heading back home for a warm up.

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I didn’t get yesterday and needed some fresh air I did come home earlier than planned though.

Baltic at the plot today. I had planned on replacing some rotten boards that line the bottom beds but opted for keeping warm in the shed instead and got a few seeds in.

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I had same on first plot back breaking pulling it out and then having to get rid of it.

Finally got around to burning the hedge cuttings on the plot. I’ve took a couple of feet off the hedge so quite a lot to burn but once it got going it only took an hour or so to reduce it to a pile of embers.

No idea how I labelled the pics as adult content I can’t find out how to remove it so here are the pics again.

Few bits off the #allotment today. #leeks are on last legs might get one more harvest after being flattened by snow a month or so ago. Signs of root fly in the #carrots as well but hopefully cut out the bad parts and leave enough to use.

Windy at the allotments today storm Eowyn trying to take this plot holders tunnel away. My plots ok so far though hope everyone else is doing ok.