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#allotment

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Yvan

Dinner was late spring in risotto form. The last leaves we'll get of the wild garlic, chopped with #allotment parsley and dill plus the zest of a lemon. The risotto was finished with parmesan, butter, and a squeeze of lemon juice. To garnish: blanched peas and asparagus from the allotment.

I was a tad heavy handed with the EVOO on top. 😅

A wide brimmed bowl, so wide the rim is out of shot, in the depression of the bowl is a heavily green flecked risotto, with dark green-yellow-green evoo pooled around the edges, steamed peas and asparagus pieces on top, and a garnish of a sprig of curly parsely and a wild garlic leaf.
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Yvan

So that's the #allotment polytunnel pretty much set up for summer. There are 22 tomato plants in the central beds, interplanted with basils. Down the long side there are 6 eggplant plants across 3 varities, one variety of capsicum, a Minnesota Midget melon in esch corner and a Petit Gris de Rennes in the middle. Down the shorter side there are also melons in the reverse planting pattern to the long side, and two varieties of capsicums between them, plus a pair of Beaver Dam chillis.

The tricky bit with the capsicums and eggplants is I lost track of which are which variety 🤦🏻 so it'll be fun to find out!

There is space for some chilli plants to go in at the ends of the tomato beds, once the celery and coriander is cleared... but most of the chillies will need to be in the greenhouse this year (better finish it, lol).

Another non-high-achieving allotment weekend, alas... weather has been meh. But I'd have actually preferred a lot more rain. But some is better than none I guess.

A view inside a polytunnel, a wide bed left of the central path, then a narrow bed along the side where the polythene is, there are plants in all the beds with blue and yellow strings running up to the ceiling from them, the beds have low wooden edges and there is pale wood chip over the paths, there are garlics along the edge of the poly tunnel and down the center of the nearer bed.
a view inside a poly tunnel, straight ahead is a double width bed with the central path on the right and path behind it beyond which is a narrow bed along the side of the poly tunnel these only run for part of the length of the poly tunnel and just visible on the left is a cage for holding things and some other equipment, the beds have various plantings in the blue and yellow strings leading up to the ceiling there is garlic down the center of the foreground bed and down the far edge of the background bed to the right the central door of the poly tunnel end is visible the end of the central path.
#gyo
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Yvan

We're struggling with the water a bit lately. So dry. The IBC and waterbutts are slow to fill. We have been keen for a while now to follow the advice to try not to use the chlorinated tap water on the beds directly, so we leave it to de-chlorinate at least a couple of days. And just haven't been able to keep up with our needs really.

So I have been shopping. One 10" filter holder, an activated charcoal filter for it, a cheap water meter (I'll test its accuracy later), plus some various fittings I have lying around and a good old spool of PTFE tape.

We have water flowing now, hopefully of a somewhat less genocidal nature viz a viz our community of friends in the soil.

A transparent-blue housing water filter with a garden tap with green hose coming off it on the left and a meter sticking out of the right with a grey garden hose plugged into kg.
#allotment#nodig#gyo
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Mike

So we did go to the allotment - although it was breezy, the sun was pleasant, and the small amount of rain wasn't enough to cause mud.

We came home with roses, Irises, rhubarb and the first strawberries.
I also came home with severe backache (which had been improving until now).

Got some of the sweetcorn, courgettes, melons, herbs and nasturtiums planted.

A tub of strawberries - some slightly under-ripe. The tub is purple.
#allotment#leicestershire
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Yvan

Still so much to do on the new plot, and we are well behind the desired timeline... but that just is what it is. Just gotta keep on chipping away at it. I look forward to next year ... being able to focus more on the growing than the building. For this space to be as productively verdant as the space in front of the polytunnel, rather than just a sea of woodchip and junk.

looking at an allotment plot, it is laid mostly to woodchip with some markers around the place to delineate where beds will be built, towards the back of the plot there is the frame of a greenhouse which has pallets stacked inside and next to it, and to the right are some tables and an IBC but is not in the best of shape, beyond all this the back of the plot shows more junk in general and a shed slightly hidden behind raspberry canes
#allotment#gyo
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Yvan

The polytunnel plot is looking pretty good right now, and during today's brief visit we harvested some first peas, as well as some of the copious lettuce and some mizuna.There seems to be a decent crop of beans forming on our small broad bean patch, some of the garlic is looking proper thicc, especially thst from our own fattest cloves of saved garlic. The rhubarb is super lush, but lacks rhubarby redness to the stems... the main worry, aside from all the rodent/mole activity, is our asparagus patch seems to be in a bad way, which is sad after several years of care and just one OK harvest last year... not sure what the issue there is.

View of an allotment plot. Three widthwize raised beds in front of a polytunnel spanning rhe plot. The beds are mostly full of lush growing greenness. The foremost full of a crop of alliums, mostly garlic, with some shallots to the left edge.
Looking down on a raosed bed covered with netting and filled with various leafy crops.
looking across at some raised beds, in the nearest one lots of different leafy crops grow under wooden framed cages, and just beyond it is a bed full of garlic.
#allotment#gyo
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MostlyTato

The view from outside my allotment area towards the old abandoned allotments, that someone has raided for materials (whistles innocently). That big tree on the right is a lovely hornbeam that one of my neighbours planted eons ago.
The trees in the distance are what happens 30 years after you plant small saplings on your allotment then abandon it....
Like the small ones on the left will be in another 30 years when we have gone too.

A path leads off in a straight line towards a line of green trees in the distance. On the left, following the path, is a pallet fence. On the right is a wire fence and posts. In the middle distance on the right is a large, dark green hornbeam tree. A blue sky sits above.
#Allotment#Gardening
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Lauren

Maybe this is a chaotic thing to do but I’ve left all the sutherland kale and swiss chard to seed while I’m waiting for my summer plants to get a little bit bigger before planting. The greenhouse is loud with buzzing so it’s obviously keeping the pollinators happy #allotment

The interior of a 6 by 8 foot glass greenhouse with the right hand side full of 6 foot tall flowering kale with yellow flowers
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Jo Rhodes

Hesitate to share this..but social media is currently being swamped by ridiculous #AI #gardening tips, fake videos and memes on how to grow vast amounts of vegetables in bizarre ways. Some stuff about using bananas to get cuttings started is true but the enormous triffids allegedly produced in days are definitely not. A friend has also spotted some appalling ones and she sent me this after I mentioned I was thinking of growing some #beans and #tomatoes in pots outside our office. This is such a great example of the absolute crap out there. Starts off looking vaguely ok but gets increasingly ridiculous. Sigh.. #allotment #permaculture #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #ContainerGardening

Image of gardening tips with the title CULTIVATION IN POTS. Clearly AI generated due to the vast number of errors in it. Below on the left hand side are images of brown plant pots of various sizes. Top one is 5 litre, then 10 litre then 15 litres, then 20 litres and then another 20 litres below that and at the bottom 40 litre pot. To the right of these pots of different sizes are cartoon images of plants with the name of the plant underneath that are allegedly suitable for growing in that size pot..but.. many of the pictures do not match the words..and some of the words are just made up. Far too hard to do a full alt text but..an example The 10 litre pot has next to it words suggesting that radish, celery, turnip, carrot and kale would grow well ..but the pictures that go with those veg are not always matching the words. Above radish the picture looks more like basil leaves, celery does look like very vaguely like a celery leaf but no long stalk, turnip image is a garlic clove, carrot is one green leaf with an orange leaf above it at an angle, kale does look vaguely like kale. Various other examples eg image of a cauliflower above the word chillies, also they suggested potatoes can be grown in 20 litre and 40 litre pots but the images don't match the words..so potato pictures are of something that could be Brussel sprouts or maybe hops for 20 litre pot and a large orange pumpkin for 40 litre pot.
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