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I took car to garage for 8.00 am this morning for it's MOT. As the garage is a 1/4 hour walk away from allotment I decided to call there on my walk home which is another 1/2 hour.
I had a productive couple of hours. Firstly I watered toms in greenhouse.
Secondly, I hoed over a plot that had onions in it originally and tidied it up a bit. I then planted some Durham Early Spring Cabbage I had grown in an outdoor seed bed.
I then hand weeded around my PSB and the path between it and the Spring cabbage. All the beds I had alliums in on the left side of the plot now have some form of brassica in them apart from one bed of French beans.
I then moved on to the diagonal beds and lifted my two pumpkin plants which had the sum total of two small pumpkins! After tickling over this area with a fork I then continued the rows of Senshyu Japanese onion sets by planting another 20 ish sets. I also found a use for a rake/hoe took I bought earlier in the year and loosened up the soil around the rest of my planted onion sets. (Shown in picce)
It was then on to weeding another diagonal path, accompanied at great detriment to my back as I had shorts on so couldn't kneel to do it!
I then had another half hour walk home where i will wait for my MOT result and spend another 3/4 hour walking to pick car up, hopefully with minimal expenditure.
Added a few random piccies to show progress.
I had a productive couple of hours. Firstly I watered toms in greenhouse.
Secondly, I hoed over a plot that had onions in it originally and tidied it up a bit. I then planted some Durham Early Spring Cabbage I had grown in an outdoor seed bed.
I then hand weeded around my PSB and the path between it and the Spring cabbage. All the beds I had alliums in on the left side of the plot now have some form of brassica in them apart from one bed of French beans.
I then moved on to the diagonal beds and lifted my two pumpkin plants which had the sum total of two small pumpkins! After tickling over this area with a fork I then continued the rows of Senshyu Japanese onion sets by planting another 20 ish sets. I also found a use for a rake/hoe took I bought earlier in the year and loosened up the soil around the rest of my planted onion sets. (Shown in picce)
It was then on to weeding another diagonal path, accompanied at great detriment to my back as I had shorts on so couldn't kneel to do it!
I then had another half hour walk home where i will wait for my MOT result and spend another 3/4 hour walking to pick car up, hopefully with minimal expenditure.
Added a few random piccies to show progress.
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