Linny's allotment

It's "oxen"

It's "oxen": o.x.e.n.

You don't get useful information like this on any forum, you know...!

 

Don't start @"M"!! You persuaded me into getting chickens!!!

Seriously, do I need some oxEN?

 

OXO if your soup keeps tasting weird, but no oxen

 

@ARMANDII That might just be so. One of my old school friends has exactly the same interests as you, and does live in your area...

 

Cant be, thats Swedish language...it means "the ox".

 

Don't look a lot but got 5 bags of cr@p.. Took up load of couch grass and brambles at the back, found shoddy slabs. Dug up most of the strawberry patch, lot of stones dumped on what I didn't dig so need to get them up. Strawbs were woodier than wood.


Dug up a bit by the shed..(loads of stingy roots) leveled it off then roped the other half into putting weed membrane down (which he didn't cut or peg down... ), put the slabs down (which crumbled ) and do one edge, needs staking and nailing in. And need to find some tidy slabs.







Also met another bloke from the other side of the plots and he gave me some garlic so chucked them in the box

 

Good day's work there, Linz
Just wondering about all those stones ... could the previous occupant have put them in to help with the clay soil?

I know I'm bilingual but ...
Cambridge English Dictionary

 

Nah they're grey stones that have been put down on the road up between plots, think they fell off when the dung was tipped the other week. I honestly don't think anyone's dug it over properly either, it only goes down about 8 inches and then you hit the proper clay pan.. ho hum, enough to plant in I suppose!

 

Great seeing all you've done on your new lotty @Linz ! A nice read before I tune into GW now

 

No particular order. Moved water tank down yesterday, made a tool rack in the shed, bagged up crxp, started digging one of the long beds, edges, pegged down membrane..

Today: tip run, cleared top bit of stones, father dug the rest of stawberry bed, could see why I kind of give up on it (soil is soo heavy there), lil bit more digging, made a trench for chicken poo but decided against it as it's only 3/4 months old, didn't do guttering noticed it split..was given more but it's too short. Met another plot holder who's right at the top, nice bloke. Few pics.







Started drizzling called it a day.

 

Half a long bed dug.




Baby rat? Mouse? It was squished by the bloke 2 plots over 5 mins after taking it.



Sister and niece dropped off a Subway, "helped" out and sneakily took some God awful pics of me and niece (ignore my squinty jibs please.) Found the rats? brother/sister too. my sister wanted to home it...


'Barb is finally growing


Another day on it tomorrow .. my sister said she will dig give me strength!!! She slowed me right down today

 

You sure that's not a water vole? Protected species

 

oh s**t we did say vole...I thought they had little snouts?! I feel awful now.

 

Clearly don't know my rodents, it's a shrew that has a snout. Think it's a vole, not water vole the other one lived he wasn't squashed.. I still feel bad, my cats bring them back all the time :(