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Allotment Diary May 2009

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Sunday 31st May
We all went to the allotment and planted out the sweetcorn and two courgette plants. We had to do some more weeding to fit them all in. Dad started a fire and we burnt some of the old chicken house and dealt with some of the weed pile using it. Dad watered around quite a lot of the young and drought susceptible crops.

Sweetcorn plants Planted out rhubarb Planted out rhubarb Chives Manure pile and greenery Salad showing Across bottom plot Across top plot
peas, beans and so on

Saturday 30th May
Me and mum went early to receive a delivery of manure from Sowood farm. Price was the same as last year and it looks very good again.
We picked dad up and then all went to the allotment to do what needed doing. I planted freanch beans and some salad. Mum planted the radish and helped prepare for the beans by weeding out some roots. Dad piled the manure that had spilled quite wide and watered and I did some hoeing.

Monday 25th May

Chilli plants in greenhouse at allotment Tomato plants in greenhouse at allotment Hedging and weedkillered grass Greenery on middle plot Strawberry bed Salad and wallflowers planted Potato rows getting bigger Onions growing big too peas and beans popping up peas and beans popping up flowers and growth by shed
More brassicas

Sunday 24th May
We all went down to weed some more. Mum planted out some more tomato plants and I planted out the brassicas (cabbage, brussel sprouts, purple sprouting broccoli, calabrese and cauliflower). Dad hoed around and then we watered a bit where seedlings are coming up.

herbs and shed at allotment view down the plots last of the broccoli plants Overwintered japanese onions onion rows, potato rows and raspberries potatoes showing through ridges potatoes showing through ridges trees in full leaf apple tree and cabbages we had been weeding between strawberry bed fruit bushes looking good flowers in strawberruy More onions planted lots of plums on their way cherry tree growing Brassicas growing well

Saturday 23rd May
Me and dad went down for an hour or two in the afternoon. Dad weeded between the cabbages and lifted off the wire cloches. I flame weeded between the potatoes and around the rest of the plots. Arms are very tired and I may have to make a neck strap or similar to make the job easier.

Wednesday 13th May

Egg from warren

Saturday 9th May
I planted a row of turnips, 1.5 rows or peas and half a double row of broad beans. Mum and dad weeded between the onions and hoed around the plots. I did some more weeding between the cabbages and then we harvested some purple sprouting broccoli.

Thursday 7th May
Mum and dad took the timbers down from the old chicken house, some to burn and some to use as stakes etc. Dad watered the seed beds and onions while mum dug up remaining leeks to compost and did a little weeding. Harvested a spring cabbage.

Wednesday 6th May

Sussex

Monday 4th May

Dismantled old chicken house chickens in new larger run

Sunday 3rd May
We all weeded on the brassica bed (lots of grass has seeded from last year), dad did some hoeing around and we planted kale, swede, radish and some wheat.

Saturday 2nd May
We went in the morning and planted salad crops including beetroot, chard, lettuce, mizuna, red mustard, land cress, lambs lettuce and spinach.