Author: Rob J

So ‘the beast’ has featured in more than one story, and I’m sure the regular readers will know its the ‘pet’ plant on the plot.  Too large to be easily removed, but left unchecked, takes over the paths. The kids have been giving the beast of plot 36 a hair cut on a fairly regular basis for the past few months, however today the beast met his match in the form of an army of garden tools.  With the boss keen to gain additional ground for planting, one of these final beds needed clearing. I skimmed off the weeds...

So things have been very busy over the past month, and we have not had loads of time to post updates… Sorry! However we do have a few posts to send your way, that will help catch you up on where we are at.  In the mean time, a few weeks ago the kids (and me) got the chance to be bee keepers for the day.  It was great fun and we had a very kind, experienced and knowledgable expert on hand.  As you can see above the kids got ‘gloves on’ with the bees, right up close. Following...

It’s part of the whole thing, reducing waste, reusing materials, from freezing fruit to repurposing pallet wood for path/bed edges.  Today included using up the leftovers….. Once we had planted up the allotment we had a few things left over these included onion sets and seed potatoes.  Not wanting to let them go to waste Daddy planted onion sets in the flower border around a mix of shrubs and also under the fruit sticks.  It was also the day to dust off an old potato planter from behind the shed that had been unearthed a few weeks earlier.  Filling...

So we have a small area at home you will have seen in the fruit sticks post. It’s not huge, but it’s workable. Here, in addition to the fruit sticks stand two compost bins. I put these in about 5 years ago and I don’t think I’ve emptied them in that time. It is therefore highly likely that this rotting mass pre-dates two of the four allotmenteers.  The bins have reached the point of always full and it was time to make room for new garden waste. I cracked the lid on the first bin and wobbled it. Before...

Sometimes in life you need to expect the unexpected and allotmenting is no different. A late evening trip around 9pm for a bit of watering lead to an amazing discovery, ok not that amazing, but a long awaited one. I arrived at the allotments and rounded the corner to find the highlight of the allotmenting week, the communal bark pile had been filled! Err, Wow I hear you mutter…..  Ok so its not ground braking, but it is ground covering and we have a number of paths on our plot, that we have repaired and weeded over the past...