Haven’t really felt like blogging for lots of reasons but last week I was reminded that I hadn’t done my June update for the allotment, so here it be. I feel like I didn’t spend a lot of time at the plot during June – work has been quite busy and I’ve been struggling to manage time/lunch breaks/work load so the allotment has fallen a bit, especially during day times. Generally in the evenings I am too tired/hungry to go up and do an hour but I think I need to start doing this maybe once a week. I tend to cook dinner every night so it is ready for David when he gets home and sometimes we don’t eat until 7pm, and frankly wearing a bra after 7pm is criminal. So I don’t go to the allotment. And no I can’t drive without a bra because the seatbelt isn’t comfy. Anyway, June…
This month I have sorted out the polytunnel. I have shifted
all the timber out and piled it somewhere else, and then put pebbles down on
the floor and arranged the slabs. I then decided it’d look nice if I planted
herbs by the slabs, so I removed the pebbles, cut holes in the weed fabric,
planted herbs, then put the pebbles back. It looked well good.
I bought new timber and got that painted up, and used half
of it to make a new raised bed at the back of the shed. Momma P helped me put
the netting up across the back so I can grow things up the shed. The raised bed
now has sunflowers, tomatoes, cosmos, clematis, beans, squash, amaranthus,
mixed flowers, verbena bon, and a pumpkin. And then I remembered it was
supposed to be for the quince. Oopsie.
I barrowed a lot of muck in the pouring rain, that was a
good Sunday.
Saw a bullfinch in the trees at the end of my plot – first one
I’ve seen there. It was a chunky boy.
Weeded, watered, weeded weeded weeded. The flora has really
enjoyed the warm and wet and now my plot is covered with bindweed, couch grass,
thistle, dock, mares tail, and other fun things like fat hen (I think it is fat
hen), and wood avens. All these things that need to not be there. So a lot of
my plot is still covered with cardboard and tarps to try and kill stuff off. This
winter I will cover EVERYTHING with cardboard and tarps for 4 months and hope
that things will die.
No major harvests in June, except the garlic. Half of which went into the wheelbarrow to die and is now on the compost. It just wasn't work keeping. Everything is behind this year
anyway, and also I am behind as I took this plot on in March and most of my young
plants died at home so I had to resow everything three or four times.
I am really pleased with how the plot is looking but there’s
still loads I want to do, loads I’ve done and now want to tweak and improve,
and loads that’s just on the to-do list waiting for money and infrastructure. Mainly
money. Allotments ain’t cheap y’all.
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| Shed is big enough to use as a workshop when it's pouring down with rain |
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| Blueberries |
