The Happy Allotmenter: 2007-05-20

Thursday 24 May 2007

Nothing like it

The feeling you get, when one pulls out of the ground something you have grown all by your loansome, well the wellies are lost for words! Satisfaction just does not cut it somehow. The accompaning picture shows my thinnings from today, which will be our dinner later accompanied by the cabbage picked earlier, with a very nice chicken steamed with fresh (homegrown) thyme, rosemary, garlic, cherry toms (not homegrown) and a little vegetable stock (homemade). Hope your are drooling!!!!

Them 'Bl***dy Foxes

My greencone has been a successful addition to my plot, breaking down all that waste you cannot otherwise place in a normal compost bin. It likes anything, cooked, meat scraps, bones etc. Which is wonderful. My bin at home no longer smells, and I now only put out half a bag of rubbish a week, which is lovely. However 'them there foxes are trying to dig it up'!!. I have recovered it on a daily basis for a week, but now I have resorted to logs. The wellies are revolting against the red tirants, and we are now trying to outwit on the strategic front. Watch this space!!

The wonderous world of Allotments

My first attempt at allotmenting was approximately three years ago, whereby I took on a plot that nobody else wanted, it even had an anderson shelter in the corner. The plot was covered in the worse weeds imaginable, such as dock, bramble and horsetail and a massive amount of bind weed. It took me a week to clear a very small patch which would have fitted in one row of potatoes, but I persevered. The soil was clay, which on a dry day turned to concrete and on a wet day a death trap, but I continued for a few months. I managed to grow strawberries, brussel sprouts, as they loved it, butternut squash and several varieties of lettuce. which considering I was an utter novice, was a substantial achievement. However, being unexpectedly given the opportunity of attending University, gave rise to a decrease in hours dedicated to the allotment and the redwellies, along with giraffe wellies were semi retired, and relinquished my plot, but remained on the waiting list for a more manageable plot. Realising the need to be in the open doors, and to give my brain a rest from the constant studying, I was overjoyed with the news that the redwellies and giraffe wellies were to be given a second chance, and was offered a plot that had recently been given up by a ninety year old, the soil was heaven, I acquired a shed and some tools handed down from the previous plot owner, to whom I shall be ever grateful, and a letter of thanks was forwarded forthwith, so henceforth started the true journey of red and giraffe wellies, may they live long and prosper.

The Happy Allotmenter

Thursday 24 May 2007

Nothing like it

Them 'Bl***dy Foxes

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