My Allotment Diary for August 2005

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Harvest moved into high gear and the weather wasn't too bad. The battle of the chickens started and the first (paper) shots exchanged.

Allotment Growing for Wednesday, 31st August 05

Keeping Chickens on Allotments

Revolution is in the air and rain in the sky. Political action regarding keeping chickens on allotments ...more

Allotment Growing for Tuesday, 30th August 05

Harvesting Sweetcorn and Keeping Chickens on the Allotment

Harvesting sweetcorn and French beans. More on the fight to keep chickens on the allotment ...more

Allotment Growing for Sunday, 28th August 05

Children and Strawberries. Start of the Sweetcorn Harvest

First sweetcorn of the year, helped by the nieces and nephew. Children find the strawberry bed. ...more

Allotment Growing for Friday, 26th August 05

Harvest Continues from Cucumbers to French Beans

Weed them and reap! Sorry about the pun. Some lovely Beurre De Rocquencort yellow French beans for the freezer ...more

Allotment Growing for Wednesday, 24th August 05

Email Astray Victoria

Message goes astray, Victoria ...more

Allotment Growing for Tuesday, 23rd August 05

Last of the Runner Bean Tipis and Keeping Chickens on the Plot

Last of the runner bean supporting tipis and a chicken controversy. I want to be able to keep chickens on the allotment ...more

Allotment Growing for Saturday, 20th August 05

Merry Tiller Rotovating and Keeping Chickens on the Allotment

Merry Tiller back to work and discussions about keeping chickens on the allotment ...more

Allotment Growing for Friday, 19th August 05

Uncultivated Plots on the Allotment Site

Weeding and digging, site tour and unfair use of allotments. ...more

Allotment Growing for Wednesday, 17th August 05

Blanching Beans and a Welcome Party on the Plot

Shlightly sozzled on the plot (hic) ...more

Allotment Growing for Tuesday, 16th August 05

Yet More Runner Beans, French Beans, Broad Beans

Yet more beans harvested! ...more

Allotment Growing for Monday, 15th August 05

Enough Runner Beans and Loads of Courgettes

Enough is enough so goodbye to a bean tipi. We have enough runner beans to feed ourselves and an army ...more

Allotment Growing for Sunday, 14th August 05

New Articles on Allotment Growing

A wet weekend so added new articles to the site. ...more

Allotment Growing for Saturday, 13th August 05

Mystery of the Compost Bin

Another beautiful day but this ended with a mystery! Where has my compost bin gone to. ...more

Allotment Growing for Thursday, 11th August 05

Large Juicy Strawberries and Contolling Horsetail or Marestail

Still under par but fighting the horse tail. Large and juicy strawberries provide some compensation ...more

Allotment Growing for Wednesday, 10th August 05

Harvesting Runner Beans and Cucumbers

Illness has kept me away but managed a couple of hours today, ...more

Allotment Growing for Sunday, 7th August 05

Harvesting, Blanching and Freezing Runner and French Beans

A weekend of harvesting and blanching and freezing. On Saturday we gathered a carrier bag of French beans, one of broad beans, some runner beans and yet more courgettes. ...more

Allotment Growing for Wednesday, 3rd August 05

Yellow Mini Squash and Climbing French Beans

Where were those beans hiding yesterday? Anyway harvested those and then the yellow mini squashes that were fast becoming maxi squash! Laid them on the table to cure. ...more

Allotment Growing for Tuesday, 2nd August 05

Compost Heap Construction

Compost heap construction and Ben the rat is still around. The comfrey will act as an activator and help the heap to cook. 4 good cuts from the comfrey this year and at least one more to come. ...more

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