Our Allotment

Okay, so we didn’t get an awful lot of gardening (or allotment work) done this weekend. The weather was dead against us; I think we can reasonably claim that this wasn’t our fault. On the other hand, the veg patch in our back garden yielded still more delicious beetroots and spinach for our sunday dinner, and some decent-sized unrotted courgettes for this evening.

 I was prompted by this morning’s report on McDonalds’ plans to re-investigate the subject of biofuels. More specifically, biodiesel. The more I look into this, the more I think it’s something which we ought to be doing - converting a waste product into a valuable resource (and reducing the need for fossil fuels as a result) can only be a good thing. The only question is how much time and effort can I afford to devote to yet another project?

Well, it’s a thought at least. It’s also worth considering that this biodiesel would also work as fuel for an oil-fired boiler, for example. Not much good for us (with our condensing gas boiler… Oops…) but there it is.

Hmm… I wonder whether freecycle might be a good source for transesterification processor parts…