busy busy busy

my OH came to visit at the plot this after noon and took a few pics then left me working when i came home a few hours later i asked what he thought of the plot now i have been up there a few weeks and he showed me one of the pics that he took and he said this is what he thought

 

If only!!!!

 

Blimey, he's Chitted you.

 

kaz has been cloned!

 

:lolpoint::lolpoint: oh goodness NO one of me is enough

 

Would have been nice, though, to have all those extra hands not to mention the fact that all of it would have been done the way you wanted it without having to be told!!

 

At first when i looked I thought gosh an alotment club with their own uniform matching colours.

LOL

But its looking great now you have put a lot of work in it.

 

Can you get him to clone me several times for cleaning the house? Then the real me can go to the allotment, where it will be sunny and warm, get that how I want it in peace and quiet and come home to find the house done properly, dinner made, kids homework done AND the dogs walked with not a harsh word spoken......

 

lol...love it Kaz

I love these photo types, they make for great fun. I took these a few years back when I noticed people out walking started to look strangely similar!





Steve...

 

ok in the first picture the lottie is almost Bare ( except for me )
so i thought i should update so you know that i do actually gardening and not just waffle rubbish, some things have done well some have failed miserable

courgettes have done well here sheltered behind the fence the other two planted two foot into the plot got ravished by the wind and just disappeared !

beans first on the plot to flower and produce beans



next to my beans were my telegraph peas the wind ripped these to bit back in june
the middle is still producing peas though and i have some more started on the end fingers crossed

here you can see the sweetcorns and some leeks
courgettes and Rhubarb against fence

my pots which have Blight ? going to dig them up today last lot were full of wire worm so it is most likely a waste of time but hey thats the joys of growing your own lol, the ones on the right i shall mound today


this is my onions and carrots
well what can i say the onions are tiny and the carrots just never happened
just as well the one here have come good

 

this is the salad bed,lettuces have done well beets up here never happened and i have just put some leeks in at the bottom as you can see


these are the raspberry bushes i think they are all autumn fruiters

and this is just a splash of flowers

i thought i took some of the brassics but i havent oops i have two bed with various brassics in .... ilove em doing ok but have done better in the past

this year has been a good learning curve, i plan on changing alot of things for next year, i am going to put up screening with plants and netting to try and cut down on the wind damage, really need to get a Load of manure but getting it delivered around here seems impossible, yet they give the muck away for free! go figure hey

 

here at the house i have carrots, beets, leeks, swedes, spring onions, toms, peppers, cues
all doing much better than i have at the plot here is more sheltered

 

Look a bit weedy - ma just be that they have hated the weather? or perhaps wanted for more Nitrogen when they were growing? Or got cold when young, or are not a suitable variety (i.e. not "short-season" enough) ?

Don't think so, looks like First Early that are now "dying down". If Blight the later rows next to them would have cop'd it too I reckon.

All looking very good. Mine is a disaster this year, and was last year too. Squash have not started growing yet, so they aren't going to do anything. I was spoiled in 2009/10 when they grew massively, 2011 and this they have done Zippo :(

 

if you look in the first pic with the courgettes you can just see next doors sweetcorn these are mine too ( as in i got the seeds and i started them off we shared them him having half, they were both doing really well then a while back i posted about ideas for a wind break, well this was why his are sheltered behind the metal sheeting mine open to the full wind and through that awful wet and windy weather mine just halted where as his kept growing so def going to change this layout for next season !

HA YES i love you Kristen i have argued with the boys up the plot over this for weeks i wish you were on my allotment site !!!!!

so dis heartening when this happens but at least if we are all struggling then it isnt something that we have actually done wrong ah well we can just hope for a better year next time