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A cherry tree we rescued from our neighbours garden.
Was on its last legs, until we took it up to our plot.
Hoping for cherries
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A cherry tree we rescued from our neighbours garden.
Was on its last legs, until we took it up to our plot.
Hoping for cherries
Afternoon blossom.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
No chance of cherries. Pigeons and blackbirds will strip it bare before you have got out of bed.View attachment 146957
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A cherry tree we rescued from our neighbours garden.
Was on its last legs, until we took it up to our plot.
Hoping for cherries
That's what they do to mine.
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vegster
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Thanks dear.
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Ours nearing the red colour.
How's your planting getting on
We've spent 3 days planting in our beds, so looking forward to the end benefits
Ours nearing the red colour.
How's your planting getting on
We've spent 3 days planting in our beds, so looking forward to the end benefits
Very well. Borlottis, courgettes, spinach, uchiki kuri (squash), beetroot and cucumber. Broad beans forming, lettuce doing well and this year doing carrots after 10 years off. Happy looking one inch carrot growth so far. What about you?
Here's a picture of my arse. The flowers hide the fruit and veg areas.
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Being more interested in flowers over fruit & veg gardening just now, that’s stunning.
This week’s rain has been a welcome surprise for us gardeners. It bucketed down here for hours this morning.
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Looks very very nice chap
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This is ours with planting only just done.
Allotment? It’s vast.
Do you have to give away or sell surplus produce?
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Very rarely give away, eat most of what we grow.
Big freezer
Same here. Learnt to grow what we need or bottle, conserve and freeze.
Thought I'd show that my plot isn't just flowers. Amongst the propagators are:
Healthy looking spuds.
Spinach Very happy with life.
Strawberries halted by the sun disappearing.
Carrots having a peak.
Chard and these borlottis.
Squash and courgettes out. in the green manure bed.
Blackcurrants and red gooseberries.
Runners and tomatoes inside.
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Stunning [MENTION=15605]knocky1[/MENTION]
Looks really good.
We use our allotment as a garden also, as ours at home is quite small.
Means a bit of a walk, but worth it, only drive up when we have a lot of crap to drop off or bring home.
Same here. Live behind Marocco's ice cream/restaurant and have the summer mornings by the beach and then as it gets busy scoot up to the quiet of the allotment. Sleep up there in our old Worthing Beach hut sometimes.
Meant to be campervanning through Scandinavia for 6 weeks at this moment and had got the plot ready to fend for itself (or not) but wifey got massive knee swelling and we had to cancel whilst waiting for the appointments and scans. Not a bad place to be instead!
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You don't realise how relaxing it is sometimes.
Allotments are supposed to be good for you
You don't realise how relaxing it is sometimes.
Allotments are supposed to be good for you
10 minutes rest here or there always enjoyed! Spiders and rats all welcome. The pigeons can **** off.
Beach Hut needs some work after 10 years.
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