jennyjj01 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 9:18 pm
Knuckling down at the allotment.
I've been trying to prep for the allotment committee's August site inspection, where I anticipate a 'warning notce'.
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That leaves me two beds, one with spuds and weeds in equal measure and the other mostly marestail and bindweed where my beans died.
With barely a week before potential inspection day, today I knuckled down a bit more.: The dead beans bed has been dug, weeded and sown with manure crop mustard seeds. That's the second bed to be 'cultivated' that way. The first manure crop bed has germinated beautifully.
That left my tater/onion bed where slugs had slaughtered my foliage. The onions have barely survived so I weeded around them. All spud foliage had now either died or been eaten. That's made it hard to figure where to even look for spuds. Thus I got a pitiful harvest of about 5kilo of modest sized spuds. There's probably twice as much still to be found. No spuds as big as my fist
VERY disappointed in myself. But at least they didn't get blight and they do look edible. Currently drying in the sun. That bed is about half weeded today.... It should be clear to the site inspector that I'm 'mid cultivation' with that bed.
The bed that I went no-dig on is now looking well populated by healthy spuds and a few transplanted raspberries.
Another half day of graft and I'll throw myself at their mercy.
Meanwhile, over in my two garden composter tardises, they are still covered by a thick canopy of spud foliage and I'm expecting a bigger harvest from them than from my whole allotment.
Harvested some tree onion bulblets and sowed in a window propagator.
I've also harvested enough peas and carrots from my planter to do two weekend's sunday dinners. Not a lot, but satisfying.
