A lot of work to do.......

I see what you are saying, but I have heard from other plotholders about how difficult it can be to get 'hose time' at busy periods of the day. My plan is to fill at the least busy times of day, so as not to inconvenience anyone, though my tank is large, it isn't 300 gallons , and that way, I can visit and water my crop without having to wait for the hose and also (as said above) without inconveniencing anyone else and making them wait for the hose,

The way I put it aboe may have come across as trying to keep the hose to myself, but it isn't :D , by having the float valve on there as well, would also stop wasted water from the hose as and when I fill that way as well.

 

Did a bit more today .... More of the same ......

The size of some of the worms over there!! This is a small one, and I am sure I have Tiger worms in the ground I am digging over, as they have real defined lines.



Started working along the border today towards the shed end, also dug over the biggest area and squared it off.









And they have placed my flyer in the allotment notice board



Apart from this, nothing else has changed .... Hopefully I will get to spend another hour or so over there tomorrow and break my back some more

 

Ideally, I'd like to dig the whole plot over (where I'll be growing), and then worry about where I will have pathways etc.

I really need to get rid of the root systems, I have seen others on the site just rotavating straight over and leaving roots all chopped up, and we all know how easily nettles take hold.

 

More of the same today, though I did have some help (pics below )

Doesn't look like I did much, but what I did dig over, had lots of couch grass in it, which I made sure I removed every bit I saw, so took longer to dig over this small area.





The help was asked to carry on at the other end, so that he wasn't in the way of my swinging fork





And my sprouting Shetland Black Potatoes

 

A good choice, Jack

As you get older an allotment is a nice dream that only works well if you have lots of good weather. Otherwise you find that forcing yourself to keep it looking good means working in poor weather or overdoing things - you have to be careful of your back.

 

Thought I would update this a little ...... I haven't got as much done since the last update, as I would have liked.

Just to bore you, these are my chilli's, which actually are not on the allotment, but at home in a heated propagator :-



The 2 at the back of this pic, are Ed's Carolina Reapers .... Recognised by Guinness Book of Records as the hottest chilli's in the world, I will probably end up Hydroponically growing one of these, as the yield is supposed to increase greatly.



I've done some digging :-



I've had some seedlings show themselves :-



I planted the garlic I bought in cells into compost, to give them a little head start before planting outside where the birds will take them.



Some more seedlings :-







More digging :-





Ideally, I would like to dig as far as where the Galvanised Pole is sticking out of the ground (in the middle of where the shed is) :-





Some Sweet Banana Pepper seedlings showing themselves :-



Now, this takes me to Wednesday last week, when Iain sent me a message to tell me that the Council had laid on a big trailer for taking green waste away, and that if I needed to get rid of any, get there quickly as it fills fast ...... I was back to the allotment within 20 minutes, though I was hoping to go and collect some 5 year old rotted manure.... This is what I need to get rid of :-





I got rid of 6 FULL bags like this :-



Which brings me to today ..... All I seem to have done is pot seedlings up out of cells and into pots :-



My Sweet Banana Peppers are looking healthy :-



My Atlantic Giant Pumpkin seems to be doing okay ... though the other 3 haven't shown themselves yet

Also had quite a touch, a 'twig' in a pot showed some new growth in the form of buds, so I read the label on it that someone had left attached, and it turns out it is a Grape Vine (Rose Dream http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Fruit/Soft+Fruit/Grape+Vine+Rose+Dream_230745.htm?sku=230745 ) , So I potted this up also, and have left it in the tunnel for now to give it a speedy growth boost.





Also, in the above pic, I have sown quite a few 'well spaced' Carrot seeds, as the pot is nice and deep ( carrot variety Eskimo F1 )

Apart from the above, I have also carted loads of materials etc to the plot, wood chips, 2 more compost bales, 5x 50litre trugs of 5 year old rotted manure (more to come), 2x lengths of 4" waste pipe (more on those later ), more timber, 6' canes .... Need more timber, to create a racking system in the tunnel (again, more on that later ) and also need to get some concrete blocks taken down as well (for the water storage tank to be put on).

Sorry if I have bored you all with my rambling

So ...... Sorry if I have bored you all