My Allotment Diary for October 2005

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Allotment Growing for Sunday, 30th October 05

Potatoes Sarpo Mira, Sarpo Axona, Anya and Adora

The hard job of placing a potato order and how I gave up ordering garlic! First visit to the plot for a while and a greenhouse. ...more

Allotment Growing for Saturday, 29th October 05

Death of My Father

Reason for no diary entries for a couple of weeks. ...more

Allotment Growing for Monday, 17th October 05

Allotment Security and Housing Chickens Ark

New gates on the site and a chicken house coming. Plus my thoughts on the new black death. ...more

Allotment Growing for Sunday, 16th October 05

Rabbits and Rats on the Allotment

Wildlife on the site, final potatoes harvested and started spreading leafmould. ...more

Allotment Growing for Saturday, 15th October 05

Killing Horsetail or Marestail

Killing Horsetail, cutting green manure and wondering about the warm weather. Plus changes to the web site. ...more

Allotment Growing for Tuesday, 11th October 05

Pyracantha Hedging for Allotment Security

Amazing news.. John plants a flowery thing! Plus a worthwhile urban garden scheme ...more

Allotment Growing for Sunday, 9th October 05

Japanese Onion Sets, Carrots, Parsnips and the Mantis Tiller

Planting Japanese onion sets, carrots and wonderful parsnip, back and forth with compost material. ...more

Allotment Growing for Friday, 7th October 05

Keeping Chickens on the Allotment

Victory! The chicken war is over. We can now keep chickens on the allotment ...more

Allotment Growing for Thursday, 6th October 05

Planting Field Beans as Green Manure

Fresh leeks for tea and planted the field beans on plot 29 ...more

Allotment Growing for Wednesday, 5th October 05

Weeding the Leeks and Cutting Green Manure Mustard

Weeding on a beautiful sunny day and I get my prize. Cutting the green manure mustard ...more

Allotment Growing for Tuesday, 4th October 05

Ripening Tomatoes and Spanish Rotavators

Returned from sunny Spain to find grey skies and fast growing weeds and ripened tomatoes ...more

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