Weather

Even with this epic rain, its the temperature that bothers me, I ve got some plants in the greenhouse and I don't think they are happy at all. I m considering a greenhouse fan heater.

Mobile blogging

Will mobile blogging make it easier for me to blog?

No more pots.....

When we moved in our house, we acquired around 70 or more plastic pots Of various sizes. To be honest, I never thought we would use them, Well not all of them. But as of today there all full, as are all the terracotta planters we bought Last year, and even the 4 module trays! Everything is full! Tomatoes Roma Bush Tumbling lucciola Courgettes Basil Sweet Thai Cucumber Mini indoor variety Thyme Lettuce Arctic king (suppose to sow in autumn, but it wasn't very warm today, and I didn't read the label) Borlotto bean Fire tongue Comfrey bocking 14 Sweet peppers All this wet weather is great news, but we would like to get some more spuds in the ground. We have got a old plastic tub in the greenhouse with 4 of last years spuds growing very nicely, well one plant is 6-8 inches the other 3 where just poking through So I have buried them some more to increase our hopeful yield.

Rain

It's been raining which is very good news, and thanks to JH The shed on allotment 2 now has some massive guttering Alongside a newish roof. We modified the old roof, taking out the rotten timber, Replaced one whole side of the pitched roof and refelted. It's not pretty but as of today the water butt has about 30-40 Litres in it, just another 960 more to go until its full! The thing about collecting water, it's all about surface area! As the 100 litre butt on the house filled in one night. The aim is to have over 3000 litres of stored rain water This should see us through....... For how long is just a guess but it's a start!


some photos of the shed roof, not massively exciting. Nice weather tho.

New roof on very old shed

Water Butt in place

All the guttering has now been changed

A massive THANK YOU to JH

After we had finished, I am pretty sure that bit of roof won't leak,

butt there's a hundreds of other places it will

No photo with the new felt, so I ll sort that asap or imot.

But basically we slapped on some black sticky glue, then a neatly cut sheet of felt

and hammered plenty of clout nails in.

The rotavator has arrived

We had our new toy delivered today, it's a Earthquake Badger 650. We did some research on-line but the final decision was MMs, as I know nothing about engines. MM did some field work, by chatting with Other allotment holders and asking them questions. To be honest it's the only way you'll see them working So I suggest if your thinking of buying one, Get out on a fine day and keep your ears peeled for the sound Of a rotavator in action. I'll post updates on how the rotavator performs over the next few weeks!