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Life on the allotment !

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Have a very Merry Christmas Acko with lots of happy sunny digging days in 2014. bighug
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Back to work today after one day on the allotment finding and repairing fence damage in the recent gales - luckily not as bad as others due to use of Met posts as securing attachments to my fence posts.

Two repaired panels had damage, one of which will be a full replacement. Sheds secure, no glass out of greenhouse, no roof felt damage, everything dry under proper covers.

Glad I took time before Xmas to batten down properly - saved me loads of work after seeing other local plots' damage.

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Still raining, still totally sodden.
A source at "Witch" gardening advised me that the best thing I can do is put down manure and just leave it for the time being.
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Chitting the "First Earlies"
Still soaked but have had some fine weather, so not as bad as it was.
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All your allotments must be in a terrible bad way with all the water you have had to endure. .pale

I hope you can manage to salvage something.
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Fence and gate repairs today - 1st decent weather day this year when I've been free to work on the plots properly.

Fruit trees budding well on the orchard plot.

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Spent a couple of hours just turning over part of the plot. Ache like mad now but it was a beautiful day, the first of the year when I have been able to get down to the plot. The soil is still very claggy though and still containing lots of moisture.
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Hello all!

I've managed to get out a couple of times this week and pot up some rhubarb I've grown from seed into bigger pots. I did plant some of the plants out into the ground last year and that's looking really good. The stuff in pots is tiny by comparison though.

I am looking forward to some more of this sunshine we were treated to and less of the freezing cold haze that crept back today.
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Back from the sunshine.
My first earlies are chitted nicely so should have been planted but sun, sand and beer or planting spuds. Hard choice.
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Fletcher wrote:Back from the sunshine.
My first earlies are chitted nicely so should have been planted but sun, sand and beer or planting spuds. Hard choice.
Welcome home. :D Get that diggin' done!! :lol:
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