Showing posts with label Wooden fencing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wooden fencing. Show all posts

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Our Allotment in January 2022

 They sing about don't fence me in and wanting land lots of land. There are times though when you want to know your borders. January was fence repair and replacement time

A lovely layer of manure and new posts with curbing in place to retain the soil our lass did a grand job more photos to come of completed project

On t'other side the start of the great barrier allotment
And it grows
It does look good on how the light hits the wood.

A grand view with lots of potential to come through the year

from 50 down to 37 onions how many will survive?




Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Day 59 - Gone in a badgers twinkle

 Day 59, is actually 6 days after our last full day of day 58. We do go up in between watering and tinkering but we only write about the full days we spend down our allotment.

This day, was dahlia day, our lass potted up all the Dahlias which had been sourced. Now, if confirmation was needed that I mishear our lass it came when our lass talked about the names given to the Dahlias. I would have staked good money that there was Dahlia called "Beavers twinkle" it turns out that it was a Badgers twinkle, maybe it is the forever small boy which occupies a blokes mind, but I sniggered.

This was also the first exposure for the garden hose, it had been put away for the winter to save the frosts freezing the pipes also you don't get to do much more watering than a watering can during the cooler month, but it is another sign that spring has sprung.

We also sorted out the wooden fencing which we had been given, you will see from the before and after photographs below, we have managed to bring some definition to the area, even though there was fencing at the back of the wildlife garden part, it left us feeling exposed this is hopefully remedied now.

One thing we are fighting with now, is our own minds, the allotment still looks bare, what is in the greenhouse seems to always be on the edge of existence. One wrong look and it will whither whilst weeds are popping up all over the place, no matter how much you chop and hoe. Having an allotment is very much a religious experience you have to have faith.

Just a few of our lasses Dahlias which have been potted up.
Wood, lots of wood.
Before
After
After, and looking just right for a break time.
looking good in our lasses greenhouse
Busy both sides of our lasses greenhouse