Happy New Year 2021 - New Years Day down the allotment.

Everyday is a learning day, today we learnt not everything can be a success, but you learn from it and go on. We also, well I learned thanks to our lass, that there is a lot more to life, just being in the game can be just as if not more rewarding than going for the win. People will normally only talk about their successes and never of the failures, but they do say you have to taste failure to make the flavour of success taste sweeter.

But first, lets start with a little bit of repurposing, our lass put up this sail boats decoration on the shed of doors. 

A not so healthy looking onion set, they have in the main part sprouted shoots, and as you can see here, have a semblance of a root system. but the onion part has gone funny. I am trying this out on one which wasn't fully rooted like the rest of them. 

I re potted the onion set from above, it now lives in the green house. I am thinking the ground has been too wet for them and although a lot of grit had been added, it may have got water logged. will keep you updated.

The tomato seeds which germinated when I tried to save them and so I tried growing them instead have as you can see succumbed to the first frost.

Next we have the aubergines, as you can see I only tired out 5 seeds have 95 more in reserve, they need a warm start, and the green house isn't quite up to temperature yet, but I have put them on the hot bed, and as always will be hoping

When on the back window of the greenhouse, the thermometer thought it was 20c

When moved to a more honest position, and the back was not touching the glass heated by the sun, but in the air of the green house, the temperature dropped down to 14c and by the time we left it was down to 8c.

Day 28 - All the little things

 You can go to the allotment, and you don't have to move mountains, sometimes just the little things make the biggest changes.

This is the first photo with no carpet, bags of weeds, metals poles or just any general rubbish which shouldn't be there, well maybe that triangular slab, is out of place but we can cope with this. Oh, and the bags at the far end have slate in. But we are hopefully getting close to the end of trips to the tip. Might be an idea not to show you what was behind the camera.

Something for the birds

Something which may well end up in the "That didn't work category" we will see, it is already a "That didn't work" due to me following a tip from Gardeners World, in regards of getting tomato seeds, taking the seeds out, putting them in water then drying them off once the jelly from around the seed has dissolved. No matter how you did it, the seeds would all start to germinate. So rather than waste them i have put them in some old soil we had. this has started to sprout. What will happen? We will see.

Day 18 - The day I potted on weeds

We all have to do a daft thing in life, and mine was to pot up weeds. I had a few weeks ago tried to grow cauliflower from seed, a little late but thought that now we had a green house I could if need be put them in there, or simply see what happens. The pots were initial left at home outside, and I presume weed seed had blown onto them and germinated where the cauliflowers hadn't at first glance you couldn't tell the difference, but later on they soon became recognisable as weeds, they have since been composted. Our lass also removed more carpet. One day we will be rid of carpet. On the last photograph you will see a dark patch at the end of the path and in front of the greenhouse, this has been remedied by putting some carpet back, but it may well turn into a bigger job, of digging it up either extending the slab path or stone/sand underneath then bark. Watch this space.