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Allotment Diary August 2007

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Friday 31st August
Mum and dad cut the grass, hoed, weeded, watered, filled water butt. Harvested round cabbage, broad beans, 2 courgettes, 5 sweetcorn, 1 pear, all plums, beetroot, salad leaf, spinach and rocket (a taste at last).

lots of pears harvested and a strawberry Tuesday 28th August
Lit fire, weeded, harvested pears and carrots.

Monday 27th August
Me, mum and dad went down before lunch and stayed until mid afternoon. Me and dad added an extra bay to the stillages and I moved manure, when I got tired mum and dad moved some too. We put lots into the compost bins and I harvested some potatoes, carrots, parsnip and a turnip. Mum harvest French beans, kohl rabi and there were some more pears that had fallen. Mum and dad both did some weeding and dad watered in the greenhouses. Mum harvested salad leaf while dad cleaned the manure off the wheelbarrow then I realised that the onions could do with lifting so I lifted them and harvested a couple of courgettes. Dad also trimmed the grass, today my hay fever/cold was a bit bad and I had trouble keeping going.

Most onions harvested Tree on middle plotMiddle plot again with tree, manure and mum Potato tops have all died back early this yearManure into stillages some more,extra one created Sprouts looking really healthy, along with the weeds!

Tuesday 21st August
Me, mum and dad went down after tea. Dark and gloomy and drizzling very lightly on and off. Put sweetcorn waste into compost bins along with some grass and other kitchen waste. Mum harvested some French Beans and me and dad did some weeding.

Monday 20th August
Me and mum went down after tea in the evening. It was dull, but not raining and we got away with it :o). We harvested all of the Sundance Sweetcorn and it came to 3 stone of corn (19kg)! We harvested the ripe tomatoes and filled a carrier bag, filled another with leaf salad and another with Calabrese and Cauliflower. I decided to harvest some potato since there is so much still to dig up and took about 6 foot from a row giving another bag sized pile of potatoes.

Half the sweetcorn harvested! Some broccoli harvested Some potato harvested Some tomato harvested Some salad leaf harvested and lettuce

Sweetcorn, courgette, plums and a pear harvestedSunday 19th August
The weekend has been wet so we haven't been down until me and dad went towards end of the day today. Watered in the greenhouse, bent over onion tops, harvested courgettes, a pear that had fallen and the ripe plums (5 or so). The corn appears to be ready and 4 cobs have been brought home and look really good. The small pumpkins are turning orange from green slowly and some of the chilli peppers have turned bright red.

Wednesday 15th August
Mum and dad went down in the afternoon, watered, harvested courgettes, tomatoes, greenbeans, salad leaf and beetroot.

Sunday 12th August
Me, mum and dad went down in the afternoon and mum weeded and harvested some more. Me and dad moved the putrefying compost from the big stillages into the dalek compost bins that we set up yesterday. This way we can turn it easily and stop it reeking (and we have drainage holes in the polythene underneath now! We then set about putting the cow manure into the stillages but left the sides off so that we have two horse shoe shapes to put it into. This way we can make a third bin for it as well.

Leeks and squashes Across the bottom plotManure pile Manure in binsCabbages growing well!

Some garlic harvested Saturday 11th August
Me, mum and dad went down in the morning. I harvested the elephant garlic and planted out 14cauliflower. We looked at how to set up the four black compost bins. Dad cut the grass, weeded and hoed while mum harvested lettuce, courgette, beetroot and put the ones that had run to seed in the compost bin.
In the afternoon we went down again and put the compost bins in place with posts at either end, rope to secure them and a wire to help hook the rope tighter. Mum did lots of weeding and I harvested five carrots.

Beans growing Dalek bins lined upTension the rope holding the bins in place Chilli growing in greenhouseTomato ripening Leeks, squash and sweetcorn doing okBrassicas Brassicas and beetroot etc.Carrots and parsnips

Friday 10th August
Mum and dad weeded top and bottom plots again, watered and lit fire. Harvested tomatoes, carrots and salad leaf.

Thursday 9th August
Dad secured the window cill and sealed the shed window. Secured the shed gutter. Watered beech hedging, tomatoes etc. Weeded on top plot. Mum removed wire cloches from over french beans and put some over young lettuce plants to protect from pigeons! Harvested courgettes, french beans, peas and last of mangetout. Weeded on bottom plot again.

Wednesday 8th August
Mum and dad weeded on top and bottom plots. Watered.

Tuesday 7th August
Me and mum went in the evening for an hour after tea. We harvested cabbage, tomato and courgette as well as watering and weeding.

Sunday 5th August
Me and dad went in the morning to open the greenhouses and check the water levels and again in the evening. Did some weeding and tidying and harvested anything that was ready.

Saturday 4th August
Me, mum and dad went down for lunch, cooked bacon butties (mmm.....). Then we harvested the last of first early potatoes, weeded around potatoes, hoed and watered. Quite windy and very hot when the cloud broke.

Friday 3rd August
Mum and dad went down after lunch for an hour, cut grass, harvested lettuce and cabbage, composted some that were rotten. It became too hot in the sun!

Thursday 2nd August
Mum and dad went down for an hour or so to harvest, several cauliflowers, mangetout, peas, courgettes, tomatoes, kohl rabi and strawberries. Weeded and watered in greenhouses. Blanched and froze, caulis, mangetout and peas.