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Follow me on my #allotment in Hucknall #nottinghamshire
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First batch of onions harvested. These had all flopped over so were ready. All over wintered from sets. Not the biggest but will still get used.

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June 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Swarm on the plot tonight looks like they’ve taken over an old colony in that tree.

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May 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Peacock enjoying the chives today.

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May 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Was gifted some ginger. First time grower hopefully get a crop.

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May 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Lovely couple of hours on the plot today and first pick of asparagus.

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April 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Allium Leaf Miner. It’s that time of year when the females start laying eggs. First sign is a row of dots on the leaves of your plants. I always take these off and destroy them. A real problem of a pest that’s spreading rapidly across the UK.
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April 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Greenhouse sorted ready for season. Tomatoes and cucumbers planned for this greenhouse at the plot.

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April 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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One of my favourites Pink Fir Apple planted out in tubs today. Luckily I saved some tubers from last year’s crop as I’ve not found any online for sale at all this year.

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April 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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First batch of gutter peas out. These are Hurst green shaft.

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March 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Rotavated the five beds that I cleared last week. Ready for the season ahead.

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March 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Beds four and five cleared and weeded with the added bonus of some missed parsnips.

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March 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Two more beds cleared and weeded ready for turning over.

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March 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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It’s good to be getting down the plot after work even if it’s just an hour. Managed to weed one of the beds getting ready for turning over ready for the season.

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March 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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First batch of gutter peas in. These are Hurst Green Shaft left over from year. The mice had left me enough for two gutters.

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March 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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First earlies planted in boxes in the polytunnel. Swift, Nicola, Rocket and Sharpes Express.

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March 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Finally finished replacing the rotten boarding. Trod on a few rhubarb in the process so given a good feed and hopefully they’ll recover.

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March 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Sorting out the edges on the bean bed that are rotten now. I wasn’t prepared for several miles of couch grass roots in that one little trench alone so has taken up some time. The new boards are plastic so I’ll get a good few years out of them but they are a real pain to cut to size.
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February 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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That had to be the most difficult and frustrating inner tube I’ve ever taken out and after all that not a single bubble yet it goes flat. Time to invest in a solid wheel for the wheelbarrow.

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February 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Cold wet and miserable at the plot today. Harvested tomorrow’s stew ingredients. Heading back home for a warm up.

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February 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Baltic at the plot today. I had planned on replacing some rotten boards that line the bottom beds but opted for keeping warm in the shed instead and got a few seeds in.

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February 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Finally got around to burning the hedge cuttings on the plot. I’ve took a couple of feet off the hedge so quite a lot to burn but once it got going it only took an hour or so to reduce it to a pile of embers.
February 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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No idea how I labelled the pics as adult content I can’t find out how to remove it so here are the pics again.
January 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Few bits off the #allotment today. #leeks are on last legs might get one more harvest after being flattened by snow a month or so ago. Signs of root fly in the #carrots as well but hopefully cut out the bad parts and leave enough to use.
January 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Windy at the allotments today storm Eowyn trying to take this plot holders tunnel away. My plots ok so far though hope everyone else is doing ok.
January 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM