Vinny's Allotment Plot

Weeding, weeding, weeding that's all I seem to do latelly. Hoed all the paths with my hoe I brought from home as I wore my allotment hoe out.  Tied in some of my grapevine growth in the greenhouse to send it in the right direction.....hopefully.

I have two beds (two foot wide) that had mixed flowers in them last year. A lot of these have self seeded but I am not sure which are flowers or weed? I have some more flowers seeds to sow so...................I hoed a  6 inch swath (hoe width) down the centre of them and removed whatever was there. The next ime I am at allotment I will sow a single row of flowers down each and try and hand weed the plants I KNOW are definately weeds from the rest of the bed (Docks,dandelions,groundsel etc)
 
Once again I was the only one on site (What is the matter with these people?)

I finished by digging up the last of my leeks and took them home to my daughter, leaving them on her step as there was no one in.

Productive day today at the plot (as my lower back acknowledges).

There were eight seeds in my giant sunflower packet so I found four six inch pots, tipped out some old tomato compost and filled each pot.Gave them all a good watering to soak the compost then planted one seed in each. I cut two plastic bottles in half and used each half to put over where the seed was sown to keep the critters off them. They are now on the greenhouse staging along witt four of my newly potted Astrolomeia (Peruvian lillies) which are in much bigger pots. They are under an area where a glass pane is missing so protected from wind, but able to be watered by rain.

I then second hoed a swath in my flower beds and formed a groove with the hoe to beef up the plants that were already there with two boxes of varying flower seeds. After covering up the seed I decided to plant the other four pumpkin seeds direct in one of the rows spaced out accordingly. To keep the meeces and slugs off then I then put four glass tubes over them. These tubes are about eighteen inches tall so I stuck a cane in each in case the wind decided to blow them over?

I then hand weeded the two flower beds taking out what i new to be weeds (This is where the aching back came from as with having shorts on, I couldn't kneal to do it so it was a bendy over job!)

To finish off, and I thought maybe to release my back a bit, I decided to dig over my longest diagonal bed. I just left it rough dug and will form a seed bed when I am next there and decide what I will sow into it. Possibilities are swedes, PSB or the mixed pumpkin seeds I have just ordered? The rest of the plot was looking reasonably tidy and the bit of fertiliser I added to the onion beds seems to have perked them up a bit.

What are the glass tubes from, Vinny? I'm trying to picture them