Sadly, or maybe happily, my life seems too busy at the moment for me to make time for this blog. That said, here are some recent pics of lotty....

Will try to update more often, probably with shorter posts and pics.

See ya.
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Above, a weed that's taken over inside the polytunnel, and below, repairs needed to one of the windows.

Above, view from inside the newly renovated 'Sheddy', Baz has done some amazing work on the inside. I've done some pretty awesome cooking! Still some work to do, but it's starting to look really good.

Above, the first lot of sewing inside the polytunnel.

Above, more sewing in the polytunnel.

You can't really appreciate it, but this was the moon a couple of nights ago, looking across our allotment and our neighbour Andy's.

Shed roof!

Ok so I'm due for a big update on the allotment, but just wanted to post a picture of our new skylight in the shed, it is so cool! Thanks to Baz and Andy who put it up last week. The shed is slowly coming together now, having remade all the sides, floor and roof, all we really need to do on the outside is attach some guttering for collecting rain water and really get going on the inside, which is going to be really cool hopefully!

See ya -x-

Bonfire night!!

Howdy.

Sorry it's been ages since I updated you, blog. Well here I am now. On Saturday we had our annual bonfire/watching-the-nearby-fireworks-night. We had two friends, Mim and Liz, over, and we had an awesome night which involved nearly getting killed by flying pieces of flint, eating way above the recommended daily amount of hot dogs, getting a little merry and playing uke and singing.

Yeah so we learnt that it's not a good idea to make a border for your fire pit out of large pebbles. An hour after the fire was lit, we started to notice something flying about. Then we realised the flying things were shards of stone. Oops. So we cleared the area of guests and Baz relocated the fire!! Seriously though, it was kinda scary, and it hadn't occured to us that this might happen. 

Fire number two under way, we got onto enjoying the Fry's hotdogs. There was talk of 'double dogs' later in the night. I didn't participate in this crazy activity. Unsurprisingly, Baz did.

Although it was forecast to rain from 5 till 10pm, we didn't have a drop of rain, which was brilliant.

We made it until about 2am I think, then headed home, tired, full and smelling of smoke. Was so glad when my head hit the pillow . 

Zzzzzzzzz...... See ya -x-

Our first 2013 potatoes! (June)

Here's a pic of our first potatoes, back in June, which Baz made into a yummy dish....mmm...yum.

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May and June

Here's the pics from May and June and stuff we did.

May:

Cute little robin perched on the compost.

Hardening off the seedlings...

Our first lot of radish!

Mmmm yummy radish!

June:

Here's me transplanting the runner beans (above) and broad beans (below).

Above: Baz surveying the brassicas.

Above and below: inside the polytunnel.

Above: decided to put some carrots in a pot to try to get around the problem of carrot fly which only fly up to a certain height. But actually the ones I transplanted to a bed outside were totally fine.

Above, Baz's potted potatoes and below, our new fire pit!

Above, Baz and Tommy.

I'll leave you with a photo of the beautiful fox who is resident at our neighbour, Andy's, plot.....

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March and April

Wow, I have been really slack with updating the blog. Sorry about that.

So how do I sum up the last six months?

MARCH:

This is what our home-made compost looked like:

I  made the mistake of using it for sowing loads of seeds into, which wasn't a good idea because loads of weeds came up. Need to remember to use it on the plants once they've germinated and established themselves!

Here's what we sowed/planted in March:

APRIL

Below is the compost we buy from the Co-op. And we use this to start loads of seeds off in the poly-tunnel and at home.

Above is the door Baz made for the poly-tunnel. The original one had zips on either side of the door, but they both broke, hence the need for a door. 

The daffs are out!!

Ok so we learnt in April that mice or some other creature dig up certain seeds and eat them!! Take two was starting them off at home! These were destined to be squash and courgette plants.

At the end of April things started to take shape in the poly-tunnel!

Above: our 'infinity herb garden'.

So that's March and April..... I'll post separate posts for May to August. Thanks for reading/looking!

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