http://david.sekules.com/allotment 'Cos the world needs yet another allotment blog... Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:49:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weekend Julie was at college during the day, so there wasn't a lot of free time to visit the allotment. Nevertheless, the girls and I did manage to grab an hour or so to pop in and tidy up a little. The girls were nervous about weeding, but once they ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/09/17/a-little-light-weeding/ This is just a quick post to see whether i can really update my blog from my (non-smart) phone using opera mini. It kind of looks like i can... Also, the lovely news is that we have photos of the allotment in all its black-fabric finery, which i will post ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/09/16/just-messing/ My parents came over to visit last week. Dad had a school reunion in Brighton; Mum had the burning desire to see the plot and her grandchildren, although probably not in that order. Probably not. I'm sure Mum would have been happy to have spent more time working on our plot ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/09/04/the-folks/ Okay, so it's been a few weeks since the last update. What can I say; things to see, people to do... Last thing we heard, the plan was to define the beds negatively by setting out the paths; the beds would be the areas in between. Sounded good, but when we ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/08/12/its-been-a-while/ Thursday evening, the boys and I went lookin' for scrap wood to recycle. I'd spoken to a manager at a local DIY store, who told me I'd be welcome to help myself to pallets from their loading yard. We'd just need a way to transport them home for breaking. Sadly, ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/07/22/preliminary-sketching/ I went to bed worrying about the weather last night. John had agreed to work our plot for us this morning, as long as it wasn't raining. The weather forecast wasn't great; there was talk of showers and torrential downpours later, but in the event today dawned bright and sunny. ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/07/19/the-blank-canvas/ Thanks to a generous "seeding grant" from my parents (thanks again, folks!) we were able to buy a strimmer and start work on Saturday. Sadly, the strimmer doesn't seem to be designed for quite such strenuous work and developed something of an overheating problem. This could be down to my technique, ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/07/16/well-its-a-start/ 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 ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/07/02/biodiesel/ We finally managed to visit our allotment this afternoon. I say "We"; I mean myself, Poppy, Sage and Reuben. Julie was, sadly, at work and Storm had a social life to pursue... I managed to snap the following shots using Julie's phone camera. My own phone was with Julie because... Well, ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/06/29/pictures/ The weather's been something of a drag for the past few days; pleasant enough during the day (when I'm at my desk at work) but drizzly or worse by the time I hop on my bike to cycle home. Needless to say this, combined with the need to attend to ... http://david.sekules.com/allotment/2007/06/28/weather-weeds-and-wecycling/