#allotment

Plan your vegetable garden wisely now, and you'll harvest the benefits in the months ahead. It's all about putting in the work when it counts, and VegPlotter is there to help! #gardening #vegetables #grow #planning #allotment

BroadforkForVictory

2 days ago

I added another layer of greens and browns to the compost pile.

The woody mulch is doing it’s best to hold back the oncoming tide on the communal compost plot.

#Allotment #Compost #Mulch #NoDig

A compost heap next to a blue shed. The heap is freshly covered in a new layer of green compostable material over a layer of shredded paper and woody mulch. The pile slopes with it being higher at the back than the front which will be rectified the next time the pile is turned.

A 15 cm plus layer of woody mulch materials put down a week ago to help soak up the rainfall coming down the slope has partly worked. Puddles lie in the first metre or so on the plot instead of across it all. The mulch is at least more solid underfoot than the sodden grass pathway is.

Tau

3 days ago

ALLOTMENT NEWS!!! words are useless lol!

#allotment
#nature
#photography
#cycling

(Btw, I love it. )

Mike Rogers

4 days ago

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is Summer flowers

http://flightplot.wordpress.com/2023/12/03/summer-flowers/

#Allotment #Blog #Flowers #Gardening

A sunflower with red tinged yellow petals and a dark centre

LisaAnn

4 days ago

It's coconut cake at the allotment

#baking #Allotment

Coconut cake, contains milk,eggs and gluten

LisaAnn

4 days ago

Can't make it to the allotment AGM so sending a cake as my proxy

#baking #Allotment

Cake iced on top Lisa's proxy showing an X on the side in black icing

𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝑺𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒔 🌨️

5 days ago

Aerial photograph of a community garden and tennis court in summer.

July, 2021 at Webb Park in Lakewood, Ohio, USA (near Cleveland)

Posting for December 2nd #ArtAdventCalendar

#Aerial #Drone #Drones #AerialPhotography #DronePhotography #Cleveland #CityParks #UrbanGardens #CommunityGardens #Allotment #Tennis

Overhead photograph of community garden in summer, with individual plots and dirt rows between. Red surface tennis court and walking path are visible nearby.

Richard Rollinson

5 days ago

#today Just got done entering my #ProjectFeederWatch data for week number 5 of this season's counts. The data may be viewed here:
https://feederwatch.org/pfw/count/summary?id=S155590721

We had 22 species and 120 individuals this week, which is quite a lot for this site. Two unusual visitors this week were a Northern Flicker and an American Robin (who came for a drink). It's been very cold, so have had to defrost the water bowls every morning.
#birds
#gardening
#allotment
#NewEngland

Tau

5 days ago

Been to the plot for burning some old wood, an old chair, wood dry didn't want to burn, so cold it was. Also found another drowned black rat in the water butt, seems to work as a rat trap too! Left the corpse outside for other scavengers dinner.
#allotment
#nature
#photography

Nick Noah Sans Pasty 👽

1 week ago

Washing the artichokes before chopping them up, half expected this one to scream like a mandrake, happy to see I can eat this without any dodgy err side effects #allotment #growyourown

Tau

1 week ago

Good morning... At the plot, freezzzzzzing.... tried to light a fire, failed, so cold it is, pond frozen, so no emptying it as planned, to repair it. Duh! Trying to save the chilly plants, might be too late, will put them in the flat hoping they'll recover.

The buzzard is doing it's thing

So far so good, carry on shivering.
#allotment
#nature
#photography
#cycling

Mike Rogers

1 week ago

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is The cornus tree

https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/the-cornus-tree/

#Allotment #Blog #Gardening #Trees

Cornus tree and numerous stems around it still with leaves which are changing colour from green through yellow to red.

🌱 The View from Plot 20

1 week ago

Quick #allotment visit to harvest the last celeriac in case of a hard frost, last year's -10C was a bit too much.
These will be stored to keep us in tasty soups and mash over the winter.
The leaves were chopped and spread on the bed, because, well, who doesn’t like a good mulch?

Richard Rollinson

1 week ago

#today It got down to 23⁰F (-5⁰C) overnight and everything is frozen solid now. Gotta love gardening in #NewEngland this time of year. Even the #compost is now frozen. 😬
#gardening
#allotment
#winter

closeup video of someone trying to break through frozen garden soil with a heavy-duty garden trowel with no success. Light brown soil, cast aluminum trowel with red handle. Bright sunshine.

BroadforkForVictory

1 week ago

Nice to have a glimpse of sunshine today for a trip to the plot. I love seeing teasel against the sky, whatever the weather is doing, but it’s better in the sunshine.

The compost pile is doing well. The old shed roof has become two outside benches above the water butts and the inside of the shed has had a lick of paint.

#Allotment #GrowYourOwn #NoDig #Shed #Compost

Some dry brown teasel stalks and spiky cones in a blue autumnal sky with wispy white clouds.

A compost heap next to a blue shed end wall with a small window. The compost area is made up of wooden poles and wire mesh. The compost heap is sloping with it being higher at the back and lower at the front. It’s mostly a brown colour, some darker brown with some leaves on the surface. This is probably nearly 2.5 cubic metres of compost.

A blue shed made from mostly recycled windows. Several water butts are linked to harvest the rainwater from the roof. Two blue benches sit over the water butts. These hold 1800 L of water with another 1000 L storage on the greenhouse to the right of the shed. A path of paving slabs separates the two buildings.

View from inside the shed. The back wall is painted blue and has various tools hanging up: a bush saw, aerator, compost trommel, grass mower, saw, spade, rake and hoe. Plastic trays line the side and end bench across the windows. Black plastic bins underneath the benches hold some IMO#4 compost, some 3 year old cow manure and some Johnson Su compost. A blue shed door lies against the lower back wall.

BroadforkForVictory

1 week ago

It’s a start. Some woody mulch has been laid down underfoot to soak up some of the surface moisture and a small heap of compostable material has appeared.

The middle third of the front half has grass growing through some mypex. Every new plot has its issues.

#Compost #Allotment #NoDig

Chopped up woody material has been laid down as a moisture holding and suppressing layer over some boggy ground. A small pile of green organic matter is the start of the communal composting endeavours on the site.

The left hand side of an allotment plot. The front is all grassed over. There’s a small pile of some old pallet wood, a few bricks and a couple of metal poles stacked together that were found in the undergrowth. An area next to the path has been covered with woody mulch material to soak up the water. A small pile of compostable material is next to that.

Yvan

1 week ago

Not much time for the #allotment when you're working 70+ hour weeks alas. So my winter prep and hopes are mainly on hold this year, it's getting too late to achieve much. But Kat made it down to harvest chillies, there is still more that could be harvested in there too if they don't freeze.

A lot of stuff not fully ripe, but they do seem to finish off ripening off the plant OK. In as much as the colour fully changes at least.

Tau

2 weeks ago

b +5.3 -
Been to the plot; it was damp and felt wet then drizzled slightly; a short desultory spat o'thin rain ensued, stopped; more damp then began to rain lightly, and is still on. Later placed the track camera pointing at a place where I left an opened can of spam, for the wildlife. Will report on this. Also had a fire in controlled environment (the burner)- which is silly cos it is all wet - warmed me extremities for a few minutes then proceeded in tidying up the area around the greenhouse.

On the way back spotted and recovered a large fish tank water pump - yet to be tested - and later on, four metal things of the sort you put candles on, attached to the wall or something. Third time I find fish related items in the same place. Previously, another large pump, and a complete fish tank - without fish!

#allotment
#nature
#photography
#wildlife

Wood fire in a controlled environment...

Looks like a massive pine tree... but it's four pine trees in a straight line W to E, perfectly aligned. Biggest trunk is at least three meters in circumference, easily 3 or 400 years old.

Mike Rogers

2 weeks ago

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is Late autumn plotting

https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2023/11/26/late-autumn-plotting/

#Allotment #Blog #Gardening #GrowYourOwn

View of an bare, forked over, allotment patch with a cornus tree showing green, red and yellow leaves at the top of the picture, stawberries along the bottom and some carrot foliage over on the left.

Richard Rollinson

2 weeks ago

#today Just got done entering my #ProjectFeederWatch data for week number 4. We had 20 species and 97 individuals this time. This week the Cooper's Hawk was not successful at least while I was watching. It's getting colder every day now so the bird count is rising! See my data here:
https://feederwatch.org/pfw/count/summary?id=S155193518

#gardening
#allotment
#Birds
#NewEngland

BroadforkForVictory

2 weeks ago

Let the composting begin. The front half of this plot (from the mypex to the main path) will now be set aside for making communal compost.

Thankfully, the site has had some dry days this week but the ground underfoot is still boggy.

The first compostable material has been donated, instead of going on a bonfire, so some environmental good has come from this already on day one.

#Compost #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #NoDig #SoilHealth #Mulch #Gardening

A house in the background is overlooking an allotment plot. Most of the back half of the plot is covered with mypex and belongs to another plot holder. The back half is drier than the front of the plot mainly thanks to plot holders having perennial soft fruit and trees at the back of their plots to soak up the rainwater coming down the slope. Three wooden poles are on either side of the plot to mark the boundary of the space designated for making compost. In front of the plot the central path of the main site is rutted and muddy from use.The photograph is taken from the pathway of the plot opposite.

dernkat

2 weeks ago

As the days get really short and the jobs become less about plants and more about structures, it makes me happy to look back at the hilltop plot over the year so far. First year of the greenhouse which has been a big learning experience both in dismantling, moving, and rebuilding,, as well as using. #allotment #garden #gardening

November allotment plot from entrance toward greenhouse at back. It is very green and a bit scruffy, with a few veggies like leeks, kale, and purple sprouting broccoli growing. There is a wooden fence along the perimeter and a metal arch and old metal trough sit in the foreground.

March allotment plot from entrance toward the greenhouse at the back. The garden beds have been mulched and weeded in readiness for planting out to begin. The greenhouse is still waiting to be put together. There is a wooden fence along the perimeter, a tyre and old metal trough sit in the foreground.

July allotment plot from the entrance toward the (now finished!) greenhouse. There are flowers and vegetables growing, except the climbing squash up the arch which is in the foreground next to the old metal trough.

Tau

2 weeks ago

At the plot, doing something, removing nets and sticks, plucking some weird but unknown stuff, planning the future layout, including rebuilding the pond.
#allotment
#gardening
#nature

Agroecology Map

2 weeks ago

Some of my plants, today, in my small garden at home. I'm trying to implement permaculture principles to better understand the dynamics of nature in small spaces.

https://agroecologymap.org/experiencia_agroecologicas/pequena-horta-em-casa/gallery

#agroecology #permaculture #allotment #agroecologia #permacultura

Photo of Canavalia ensiformis (feijão-de-porco)

Photo of Some New variety of tomatoes in my garden

Mike Rogers

2 weeks ago

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is It's not rained...

https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/its-not-rained/

#Allotment #Blog #Gardening #Weather

Crocuses starting to appear above ground

Yvan

2 weeks ago

Sainsbury's own brand distilled malt vinegar used to specify a 5% acidity.

As per this link: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/01897878/distilled-malt-vinegar-sainsbury-s

Now, as per photo attached, that has gone away.

So I guess I just have to live in hope my vinegar pickled #allotment Tangerine Tiger chillies won't be poisonous. (I have a pH meter somewhere, but it has vanished and remains elusive.)

Specificlly wanted clear vinegar for these, to best show off the pretty colours.

#preserving #growyourown #peppers

Two large upside down bell shape jars of Tangerine Tiger chillies, which are orange with red stripes. Submerged in clear liquid with yellow mustard and coriander seeds visible.

BroadforkForVictory

2 weeks ago

I’m taking on another half plot at the weekend. It’s like a marsh & one of the wettest plots on site.

The aim is to improve the plot’s resilience to adverse weather by building up the soil level & soil health.

Not everyone makes their own compost on the allotment site. I’ll use organic matter donated from across the site to build the plot level up & make compost.

Most of the compost made will be a communal resource for other plot holders to use.

#Compost #Allotment #SoilHealth #NoDig

An allotment plot. The back half has a couple of soft fruit bushes, a shed painted in green and white stripes and mypex laid down over the ground. The front half is completely grassed over but the plot and footpaths are completely sodden.

Two green wellington boots in a puddle of water on a waterlogged allotment plot. One boot is raised above the water the other is part submerged.

A part submerged wellington booted foot on a waterlogged allotment plot. Every step through this plot is like this including the pathways. Grass and weedy vegetation cover the ground so it’s not all bad. Having just bare soil in these conditions would be far worse.

Yvan

2 weeks ago

About 15 hours in the dehydrator — 10 at 50°C, then 5 at 60°C — turned 352g of Aji Mango chillies into 72g. Now a nice little jar of orangish powder that you really definitely do not want to snort (don't ask…)

Very tasty, also quite spicy! In this form they definitely have a "mango" thing going on.

I think they could combine with some other ingredients to make an excellent chip seasoning.

The whole chillies are going to need quite a bit more time.

#allotment #chillies #peppers #growyourown

352g of halved orange Aji Manjo chillies in a blue mesh basket on a set of scales.

72g of dried out orange Aji Mango chillies in a white enamel plate on a set of scales.

A hexagonal jar of pale orangish powder held out in a hand.

BroadforkForVictory

3 weeks ago

Mice ate my bean seedlings. I stupidly left the covers off the seed trays after watering.

I’ve sown three double rows of broad beans direct instead. Two double rows of aquadulce and one of leidse hangdown from realseeds.co.uk

I’ll sow field beans in the left hand bed in spring when the autumn winter oriental veg is finished.

#GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Mulch #NoBareSoil #Allotment #HomeGrown #NoDig #MinimumTill

Some enviromesh keeps the pigeons off a bed of oriental leafy greens and winter radish. Next to that bed wood chip mulched pathways alternate with dried hay mulched beds of direct sown broad beans. The seeds were soaked for an hour in Johnson Su compost extract, direct sown and thinly covered with dried hay from the greenhouse beds. Some root parsley is growing in the far end of the bed on the right hand side. A black metal fence surrounds the beds to deter the muntjac.

Richard Rollinson

4 weeks ago

#today Here's my data for Week # 2 of this year's #ProjectFeederWatch . My data can be viewed here:
https://feederwatch.org/pfw/count/summary?id=S154208622
We had a good week with 19 species recorded and had 90 individuals visit. Had one predation of a Mourning Dove by a Cooper's Hawk this time. I would appreciate i if someone could confirm that this link actually lets you see my data, or is blocked in some way. I'm never quite sure if it is visible to others.
#birds
#gardening
#NewEngland
#Allotment

BroadforkForVictory

1 month ago

I gave the compost heap a turn today and added the pipes to circulate air through the heap.

I’ll keep adding to the pile and periodically turning it through autumn and winter. This will be my mulching compost for the beds in spring.

The mixed broad bean and field bean beds are sown, part sown or awaiting transplants. Hoping to source some wood chip so in the meantime they have chopped comfrey for pathways.

#Compost #Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #NoDig

A compost area with sides of mesh supported by wooden poles is next to a blue shed wall. The compost area is about half full and currently holding almost 2.5 cubic meters of compost. It’s a dark brown colour apart from where the sunlight is hitting the front right hand side edge. Five plastic downpipes are sticking out of the heap and will soon be removed to leave holes to circulate air through the pile.

Part of an allotment plot behind a metal fence to deter muntjac. A left hand bed is covered in old enviromesh to keep the pigeons off the oriental veg and winter radish. Seed saved broad beans and field beans have been sown in the gaps where the veg has been harvested. Two pathways of cut comfrey are either side of a narrow bed sown with more broad beans and a wider bed for transplanted beans. Root parsley is growing in the far end of the wider bed. They will be harvested through winter.

BroadforkForVictory

2 months ago

The allotment shed with water butts connected up. Provided it rains often enough I should be able to water my plot entirely from rainwater from now on.

Inside, the old table is a snug fit.

#Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #Recycling #ReUse #RainwaterHarvesting

A green roofed, blue walled shed with 1600 L of water butts and water tanks connected up to harvest the rainwater from the roof. On the other side of a paving slab and floor tile pathway 900 L more water butts are connected to the greenhouse and three plastic composters behind them can hold up to 900 L of compost.

An old rescued dining table fits snugly across the far end of the shed. This will command fabulous views over the compost pile from the end window and spying on the neighbours through the front window. The old shed side wall is now the new shed’s end wall.

BroadforkForVictory

2 months ago

Four different compost piles. A hot pile that should ideally have been turned once more but for lack of time.

The compost area is being added to slowly for making mulching compost for the beds next year.

The Johnson Su compost pile inside is 14 months old. I’ll regularly water it on the plot as a compost extract.

A 250 L tub of compost for the potting mix.

Not in picture I also have some IMO#4 compost stored and also use bokashi compost on the beds.

#Compost #Gardening #Allotment

Compost pile on the front of an allotment plot. This pile has been turned four times since being built from the residue of beds cleared in early September. Mustard and buckwheat green manure can be seen growing behind the pile in the beds that were cleared. The compost pile is becoming darker and is breaking down well considering it was neglected after it had reached over 55°C for a few days in mid September. I wish I could have turned it again but no time.

Compost pile next to a blue walled shed. The compost area is framed by wire mesh tied to wooden poles and it is approx 1.8 m high, 2 m deep and 1.5 m wide. The compost pile is being added to gradually and fills less than half the space. It is a mix of greens, browns and inoculated with some matured home made compost.

View inside an allotment shelter. A row of terraced houses can be seen in the distance, greenery of an overgrown hedge and allotment plots. Some water butts are visible outside the windows. The shelter was made with recycled materials and mostly reclaimed wood. Inside the shelter, under a mypex cover is a pile of 14 month old JohnsonSu compost. The shelter should help keep it frost free this winter for continued use on the plot next year.

250 L tub of unsieved homemade compost started in May. The compost will be sieved in the New Year and have vermicast, leaf mould and vermiculite added to make the soil block potting mix for 2024.

clarebee

2 months ago

That one courgette plant that will not quit...

Eating up the last (maybe?) of the harvest for lunch.

#allotment #GrowYourOwn

A couple of bright orange-yellow courgette flowers, one unfurled, the other still in bud. The rain-spattered leaves of a mature courgette plant, wet soil visible in the gaps.

Tom Shaw

2 months ago

Du cidre français ? Ces pommes ont une drôle d'allure sur le seau. Oui, oui 🤔

😁

I'll have about 12 milk crates of apples, this will only fill up the three buckets.

I usually selectively pick but I picked everything that wasn't brown and rotten. They say it adds flavor. We'll see. I smelled some of the various bad spots on the apples and nothing smelled bad.

One crate each of Jonathans and Spitz for storage and pies.

#apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #allotment #growyourown

A photo of a Happy Valley Ranch cider press. It is a single basket version for the single cider maker. There are eight milk crates of apples in the background.

Photo d'un pressoir à cidre de Happy Valley Ranch. Il s'agit d'une version à panier unique destinée à un cidrier seul. Il y a huit caisses de pommes à l'arrière-plan.

A photo of fermenting vessels. There are three large buckets and one glass carboy in the photo. The buckets have French text and show strange looking apples in a cluster.

Photo de récipients de fermentation. La photo montre trois grands seaux et une tourie en verre. Les seaux portent un texte en français et montrent des pommes en grappe à l'aspect étrange.

Tom Shaw

2 months ago

And the lichen on the old tree.

#LichenSubscribe #apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #JonathanApple #allotment #growyourown

A photo showing the yellowish or gold colored lichen on an apple tree. There are Jonathan Apples in the background on the tree.

Tom Shaw

2 months ago

The Jonathan's. 7 milk crates from the big tree and almost a full tubtrug from the one graft limb on the gravenstein tree.

#apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #EsopusSpitzenburg #JonathanApple #allotment #growyourown

A full picking bag of Jonathan apples. They are a darker red and somewhat striped and blushed. There is a pug dog in the background laying in the grass.

Three nearly full milk crates of Jonathan apples in the trailer along with the tubtrugs of spits apples.

Four full milk crates of Jonathan apples in the trailer next to the tubtrugs of spits apples.

All of the apples picked in the trailer.

Tom Shaw

2 months ago

The last spitz picked, it was the only one on those trees I needed to use the ladder to pick and it looks great.

#apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #EsopusSpitzenburg #allotment #growyourown

A photo of an Esopus Spitzenburg apple sitting on a gate post. It is a solid light red. The tractor and trailer with apples in it is in the background.

Tom Shaw

2 months ago

It's time to pick apples. Here's what I'm calling the spitz, or Esopus Spitzenburg apples picked off the two trees. Maybe about 13 gallons or 50 liters in volume.

#apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #EsopusSpitzenburg #allotment #growyourown

A photo of a cut apple showing the star inside where the seeds are at.

A photo of the first apples picked from a small tree. The apples are red striped with yellow/green giving them a light red appearance.

The full picking bag, the apples are lighter colored, more green and yellow with some red. They are bigger than the first trees fruit.

An over full 10 gallon, 38 liter, tubtrug of 'spitz' apples next to a partial full tubtrug. There is an empty tubtrug and empty milk crates behind them. They are in a small trailer or cart.

clarebee

2 months ago

What alchemy is this?
The absolute magic of this transformation!

(Currently stewing in the slow cooker with apples, onions, cider vinegar, cinnamon, brown sugar and raisin.)

#allotment

Some very slug-damaged red cabbage - still broad, no real centre to them yet. A couple of bright green rhubarb leaves are encroaching onto the picture. Patches of soil.

A red cabbage on a board on a wooden kitchen surface. the interior of the cabbage is intricately patterned, white and dark purple. very dense.

Richard Rollinson

2 months ago

#today I'm looking for advice on when to harvest my (hopefully) peanut crop. These were planted out in early May (New England Zone 6b) I've had a few peanut plants in the past, but only "volunteers" planted by wildlife. I was planning to wait until frost hits the leaves, but would be interested in hearing from others with experience growing them outside the US south. Any advice?
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#peanut

A 20 foot long row of vigorously growing peanut plants in garden soil. Plants are about a foot high and spread laterally about 18 - 20 inches.

BroadforkForVictory

2 months ago

The great bean crop of 2023 is over. The bed has been cleared to be sown with winter green manures next week. In the beds next door the buckwheat and mustard green manures sown in August are flowering and attracting pollinators. In the kitchen the fruit vinegars are in various stages of fermenting.

#NoDig #Gardening #CoverCrops #GreenManure #NoBareSoil #RegenAg #Ferments #Vinegars #GrowYourOwn #Allotment

A broadfork stands upright in an allotment bed covered in a dried hay mulch. The broadfork’s metal head has a flat plate with five curved tines pointing downwards. A wooden pole is fitted on either side. To use it, a person must stand on the fork, pushing the curved tines into the ground and by stepping back and pulling the handles back, the curved tines lift and aerate the soil without turning it. Green manures grow to the left and purple flowering mallows bent over by the winds have flopped over them. Some more mallow seedlings are coming up through the hay mulch.

A rough compost pile on the left is next to a white flowering bed of buckwheat and a yellow flowering bed of mustard. Other green manures are sown in the mix which will continue to grow when frosts kill off the buckwheat and mustard. The skeletal, brown remains of teasel flower heads can be seen at the top of the photo, bent over by the wind.

Four glass jars on a kitchen top. The left hand jar contains a purple liquid and fruit of a grape vinegar that has been fermenting for 25 days. Next to that is a jar of raspberry vinegar that’s been fermenting 10 days. It has three distinct layers: a top layer of red liquid, a middle layer of small bits of fruit and a bottom layer of larger pieces of raspberry. The third jar has a day old Jostaberry vinegar ferment with a cloudy appearance. The fruit at the bottom has been mashed. The last jar on the right is a dark brown coloured mix of lactic acid bacteria and brown sugar.

BroadforkForVictory

2 months ago

I’ve added some more pre-bokashi compost to a small bed. Covered with soil or compost it’ll break down completely and become a friable bokashi compost in about two weeks. I’ll sow broad beans or field beans in this bed later in October.

#Compost #Bokashi #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig #GrowYourOwn

Food scraps on top of a recently cleared allotment bed. These food scraps have been pickled in an airtight bokashi bin for a few weeks. Each time food scraps are added to the bin they had a sprinkling of inoculated bokashi bran.

A layer of compost has been added to cover over some bokashi food scraps. The soil temperature is still quite warm so the scraps should be completely broken down inside two weeks. This bed will be sown with over wintering crops later on in October.

clarebee

2 months ago

Leek and shiitake pho on an overcast autumnal day - top tier cosy vibes. Leeks from the allotment & extra chilli for some nose-drip catharsis.

#allotment #food

BroadforkForVictory

2 months ago

From old sheds to new shelter.

When all the water butts and tanks are connected I’ll be able to collect enough annual rainwater for the plots needs.

I hope to have a bench running the length of the windows inside and out for seedlings and plants and storage space underneath.

#Recycle #Reuse #Shed #Allotment #RainwaterHarvesting

Small, rickety garden shed with a smaller tool shed alongside and a smaller still hedgehog house in front of that. All painted blue. The shed has guttering feeding rainwater from the roof into two old plastic water tanks. Everything in this picture was free, it all just needed a new home.

View from one end of the new shelter, painted cornflower blue with bare wood window frames. The roof, water butt and guttering brackets were bought new, the wood is mostly reclaimed. The end, front corner and back wall are all reclaimed chipboard. All three glass panes to the left of the open doorway were rescued from a works shelter. The white windowsill is recycled.

View from the other end of the new shelter. The planks from the old sheds form the outer shell of this half of the building and the underside of the windows either side of the doorway. Two acrylic sheet windows are at this end. One was skipped, the other damaged and discounted. The guttering is recycled from the old sheds, only the joining brackets were bought new. The old shed door still needs to be fitted, but not yet.

Jake Rayson

3 months ago

I’m researching nutteries in the UK, part of my push for a local #wildlife #allotment & community #ForestGarden

Please let me know if you're aware of a Nuttery in the UK, either community or commercial. The only ones I can find are Smallcombe Nuttery in Bath, part of Transition Bath, and The Nuttery in Newnham

Boosts appreciated :)

https://transitionbath.org/project/community-gardening

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uCKt4VZoJaHrhXPL8

#ForestGarden #FoodForest #Nuttery #gardening #Community #CommunityGarden #orchard

edit: add links

BroadforkForVictory

3 months ago

The shelter’s had a second window fitted and a paint job. Inside the greenhouse the last melon and the last tomatoes of the year are ripening. Bees on the sunflowers.

#Allotment #Gardening #GrowYourOwn

Shelter with a cornflower blue outer frame and walls. Double aspect up cycled windows on the end and front have brown frames from reclaimed timber. A black plastic water butt stands on the corner in front of the shelter. The other end and right hand side of the front are unfinished.

An emir melon with a grey body with green ribs is swelling in a greenhouse. The leaves are dying off.

A red sunflower against a grey sky has a bumblebee in its centre.

Greenhouse with four varieties of tomatoes ripening on the vine. Two beefsteak varieties, a yellow and a red cherry tomato variety. At the far end is a melon and a chilli plant.

Lucy Smith

3 months ago

Sunflowers snapped on the allotment today. It was a beautiful day. My son says it looks like an album cover! #Bloomscrolling #bloom #Allotment

Two giant sunflower plants against a blue sky with a few whispy clouds. The one on the right has a single large flower, facing the camera (looking at you!). The one on the left has multiple flowers and is further away.

msleigh

3 months ago

#intro post: Hi, I'm Michael. I reckon I'll post here about #hiking, #ClassicalGuitar, #music, #camping, #gardening, our #allotment, maybe a bit of #ukpolitics, books, stuff I find funny and the odd #caturday pic. I'm also @msleigh@mast.hpc.social, for stuff about the day job.