Went down and dug up the rest of the wallflowers, and also took more cuttings for the compost heap. Toot a couple of trugs worth of spent potting compost for next years carrot bed.
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Been Spring-Cleaning the back garden and cutting back. Took a load of compostable material down and had another check for fallen branches, as it's still been a little breezy.
Nothing worth taking a photo of. The temperature is starting to drop on a daily basis (though this week has actually been warm for the time of year) so we went and picked the remnants of the tomatoes. It really has been a beautiful week weatherwise; here's a couple of shots of the allotment in the autumn sunshine. Thought we'd better go down the allotment and check that everything was still standing and that fallen branches/trees hadn't affected anything.
This is a photo of all we found! Cut back and tidied up the back garden this morning and took eight bags of cuttings down to the compost heap. It's the tail end of Hurricane Ali and the wind was particularly worrying as I spread the cuttings on the compost heap. Only an amber warning for today but an increased warning level for tomorrow and tomorrow night.
No photo's, just went down, tipped the bags out, and then out of there as quickly as possible. A number of trees close to the cemetery wall were making very worrying splitting noises. Following the disruption from the shed break-ins we went down to weed and generally tidy up. We cleared the bean bed and tidied up the asparagus. Weeded and dug a number of beds ready for Autumn/Winter . Trimmed the bottom leaves off the celeriac so they look a bit neater. Note the white board I've put in to divide the bed and leave an area we can top-up with compost for the carrots next year. Tidied the eating area up, although the slabs really need relaying but that can be my first job in the Spring. All this trimming, tidying and cutting back; both at home and down here, has left the compost heap full to bursting. . Picked our first carrots of the season and as usual their a little on the small side - see earlier comment about a new bed for next year But the tomatoes keep on producing...... Went down mid-morning and there did seem to be more activity than normal - by that I mean most of the time mid-week there's only us there. It soon transpired that a number of sheds had been broken into and the contents either taken or scattered around on the ground. Initial thoughts of shock, horror soon gave way to slight relief that it could have been a lot worse. As we see no point in padlocking the shed ours was open but undamaged and the philosophy of not leaving anything of great value or irreplaceable down there proved to be fortuitous too. The main thing of value that was taken was the unopened bag of manure and that was later discovered in the cemetery along with other bags of compost and a couple of wheelbarrows. The shed shelf had been pretty much cleared out but as it's now almost the end of the season most of the bottles and containers were less than half-full. The discarded drawer had been cleared out but the only things of any slight value were four golf balls miss-hit onto our allotment from the nearby park, and some cigarette lighters used for starting bonfires that had been purchased from Poundland about five years ago. Once tidied up the shed did look a little sparse but at least no damage had been done and nothing irreplaceable, or of significant value, was missing. The canes had been moved around a bit but it was difficult to judge if any had been taken. As a precaution we have taken the more expensive long canes home. Some of the more expensive and useful stolen items were disovered that morning in the cemetery up a quiet corner! And at least the produce hadn't been touched. As mentioned in the previous post we've been tidying the front garden and, having cleared the front bed of petunias it was time to replace them with the wallflowers we've been nurturing down the allotment. As usual we also decided to pick what was available. |
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