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Allotment Diary June 2009

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Friday 26th June

Bottom plot and fire Manure pile on middle plot brassicas on bottom plot near road Carrots and parsnips on bottom plot back salad, kale, beetroot and wallflowers on bottom plot at back Manure pile and trees Strawberry bed Middle lot with green wall of potatoes on top one Sweetcorn and peas/ + beans Herbs and rhubarb Peas and beans supported with string and new posts Onions and leeks growing well Strong green potato rows Plants in greenhouse doing well Dried seeds on rhubarb and middle plot Middle plot fruit bushes Across top plot towards road Across top plot towards road Brassicas big and green! Tomatoes and wallflowers by road Potatoe rows with half of first earlies used

Thursday 25th June
We harvested more salad and fruit

Chickens

Tuesday 23rd June

Chickens

Sunday 21st June
We went and harvested 4 ice cream tubs of strawberries, cauliflower and potatoes. We weeded, put in supporting steaks for the peas and beans with strings for them to grow up and made a wire basket from some old squares of wire to dry out the weeds in.

Manure pile potato rows potato and into onions Onions, peas and beans on top plot Plums and currants Sweetcorn and so on Strawberries Burner made from scrap wire Salad Celeriac Cabbages Raspberries Rasoberries Carrots, parsnip and salsify rows just about visible where we have weeded

Friday 19th June
Mum and dad went in the evening to water and they harvested 9 cauliflowers. Mum then prepared and blanched them before freezing.

Fresh salad Cauliflowers

Wednesday 17th June

wrinkly egg chicken run

Tuesday 16th June
Mum and dad went to water, cover strawberries with net and to weed a little.

Sunday 14th June
We went in the morning and weeded before planting out celeriac, more salfify (as germination had been poor) and 2x pumpkin becky, 2x courgette grisette, 1x courgette black beauty and 2x cucumber. There are some more in trays still should these run into any problems. Hopefully next year these will fit onto the correct plot as I plan to move the peas and beans onto the salad and carrot bed. Dad hoed and weeded as well as setting a fire to burn the weeds, mum tidied up the wallflowers at the road edge (more food for the fire). Some of the tomatoes were tied into their canes higher up and some watering in the greenhouse and around the plots. We harvested a cauliflower and a cabbage.

Saturday 13th June
Today the sun was very strong and we went to water in the greenhouse. I spent my time sowing together pieces of netting to make a larger cover for the strawberry bed. Dad weed killered the couch grass and mum harvested potatoes and radishes. We also did some more weeding.

tiny kale tomatoes at road side rows of poatatoes plums on tree sweetcorn also growing new potatoes small rhubarb grown from seed radishes strawberries middle plot manure and possible cooking apple tree weed pile salad and beets growing weeds in between carrots etc. cauliflower cababges more baby brassicas turnip and swede rows first early potatoes are being used onions (with some weeds) peas and beans getting stronger Parsnips and carrots showing carrots and salsify growing

Wednesday 10th June
Mum and dad weeded between the carrots and parsnips. Harvested new potatoes and a cauliflower.

Sunday 7th June
We went to plant the leeks (after weeding where we are putting them), 2 more brussel sprouts and a purple sprouting broccoli. Dad did some hoeing, weeding and planted a rhubarb that we have grown from seed with a bucket of manure under it.

onions and peas and beans brassicas compost bins strawberry fruits growing chives and rhubarb

Wednesday 3rd June
Mum and dad went to water and weed around the strawberries.