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27 Oct 2011Garage Door garden , Lower Wood Terrace garden , Bee House Front garden , Bee House Bottom Terrace garden ,...
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Goodbye Cornwall! Goodbye gardens! I’ve moved back to Bristol, so it’s new garden, new allotment. It will probably be a while before it’s time for another journal.Cloudy 12°C / 54°F -
08 Jan 2011Tamar Allotment garden , Savoy cabbage Under Attack, Red cabbage Under Attack, and Purple sprouting Under A...
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Just made it back to the allotment for the first time since before Christmas. Snow had prevented us from getting there before. Sadly, when we got there we found that all of the brassicas that had been doing so well had been destroyed. This is almost certainly the pigeons. Everyone else seems to h...Sunny 9°C / 48°F -
13 Nov 2010Tamar Allotment garden , Purple sprouting Established, Red cabbage Established, Savoy cabbage Established, ...
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Sunny 5°C / 41°FSeems I haven’t gotten around to doing a journal entry since before the summer! This seems like it’s a good time, as I’m just sowing the first overwintering things. The overwintering brassicas are already in of course, but they were bought as seedlings. Everything from this seas...
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12 Sep 2010Broad beans Harvesting, Carrots "Giant Red" , Beetroot Harvesting, Beetroot "Boltardy" Harvesting, Sweetcor...
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Just a backdated journal entry to record all of the plants that died or were harvested before we went on our honeymoon.Cloudy 10°C / 50°F -
26 May 2010
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Update because it won't let me add quick milestones for this far in the past
Tomatoes "Ferline" Planting Out14°C / 57°F -
15 May 2010Sweetcorn "Swift" Transplanted, Cucumber Transplanted, Squash "Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato" Transplanted, F...
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Sunny 18°C / 64°FOur fruit cage has been quite a saga. Originally built at our old allotment in Bristol, we had to take it down a few months later and transport it down to our new house. The wood sat in our garden for months, waiting for a new home. I finally erected it this weekend. It’s a serious construc...
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27 Apr 2010
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Wedding a success, and the plants survived.
Sweetcorn "Swift" , Squash "Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato" Showing True Leaves, Cucumber Showing True Leaves,...Indoors 11°C / 52°FSo, I have a wife! The ash clouds cleared, so my dad made it too. Everything went smoothly and the whole thing seemed to be a great success. The wedding was in a big old house that we’d rented for a week, self-catering. This meant that we had to do all the work getting it ready, but we had ...
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17 Apr 2010Pickling onions (Borettana) Transplanted, Beetroot "Pablo F1" Transplanted, and Beetroot "Boltardy" Transpl...
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Sunny 18°C / 64°FNow the car is working again we took the opportunity to take stuff to the allotment. On Saturday we had a lovely sunny walk on Dartmoor, and on the way there we spotted a sign by the road offering manure. We bought nine sacks (for £3) and took that to the plot. The beetroot seedlings and borettan...
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17 Apr 2010Sweetcorn "Swift" , Beetroot "Pablo F1" , Beetroot "Boltardy" , Leeks , Pickling onions (Borettana) , Tomat...
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Sunny 12°C / 54°FApparently volcanic ash is good for plants although it looks like my dad may be missing my wedding because of the ash cloud. But the plants on my windowsill are doing great, which is worth a “Happy”.
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09 Apr 2010Sweetcorn "Swift" Sprouting, Squash "Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato" , and Cucumber
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Sunny 20°C / 68°FThe sweetcorn is now coming up, which means everything has germinated! The things that emerged yesterday are dashing ahead. Our windowsills are totally full of sprouting seedlings now. It’s a stunning day today, hitting 20°C on the patio right now, so I’m going to walk to the allo...
