🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires
@tonyjw.bsky.social
Radical Allotment Front.
In favour of a habitable planet for all, eat the rich.
The cult leaders have locked the gates to the compound.
South Cambridgeshire, UK.
In favour of a habitable planet for all, eat the rich.
The cult leaders have locked the gates to the compound.
South Cambridgeshire, UK.
I can't walk past a skip/dumpster without having a good look 😂
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I can't walk past a skip/dumpster without having a good look 😂
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Only if you bother to look back.
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Only if you bother to look back.
I thought the greens had overtaken 😂
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I thought the greens had overtaken 😂
Yes, don't you see it? It's very clean, invisibly so.
I actually have manky polycarbonate sheets from a skip at home, having winged the first part of the frame I have to cut them to size, no rush though.
I actually have manky polycarbonate sheets from a skip at home, having winged the first part of the frame I have to cut them to size, no rush though.
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Yes, don't you see it? It's very clean, invisibly so.
I actually have manky polycarbonate sheets from a skip at home, having winged the first part of the frame I have to cut them to size, no rush though.
I actually have manky polycarbonate sheets from a skip at home, having winged the first part of the frame I have to cut them to size, no rush though.
I've got some polycarbonate sheets from a conservatory roof out of a skip, I'll also be able to make a couple of little cold frames to move around onto different beds.
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I've got some polycarbonate sheets from a conservatory roof out of a skip, I'll also be able to make a couple of little cold frames to move around onto different beds.
I've started using a 1.5kg hammer to smash thicker stems on a stone slab, it works really well on brassicas, sweetcorn, sunflowers etc, they usually split into thinner strips after crushing, then you can just snap them into shorter sections for composting.
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I've started using a 1.5kg hammer to smash thicker stems on a stone slab, it works really well on brassicas, sweetcorn, sunflowers etc, they usually split into thinner strips after crushing, then you can just snap them into shorter sections for composting.
Thanks.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Thanks.
With the red cabbage I think that the clover growing underneath has helped keep slugs and snails occupied, but the Chinese cabbage is just too tempting for them so I've been removing slugs regularly from them.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
With the red cabbage I think that the clover growing underneath has helped keep slugs and snails occupied, but the Chinese cabbage is just too tempting for them so I've been removing slugs regularly from them.
You should look at the ones @danilluzin.com posted recently, that's what I'd like to achieve, I'll be following their earlier sowing recommendation.
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You should look at the ones @danilluzin.com posted recently, that's what I'd like to achieve, I'll be following their earlier sowing recommendation.
I thought we were going to get off lightly this year, but then a nearby field of oilseed rape was harvested and all the bugs came looking for an alternative food supply.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I thought we were going to get off lightly this year, but then a nearby field of oilseed rape was harvested and all the bugs came looking for an alternative food supply.
I think I'll have to try a bit earlier next time, flea beetle is always a big problem for me so I've always preferred to wait a bit until they've gone, but I've got some better mesh now so it shouldn't matter.
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I think I'll have to try a bit earlier next time, flea beetle is always a big problem for me so I've always preferred to wait a bit until they've gone, but I've got some better mesh now so it shouldn't matter.
They'll still be fucked whatever they do now.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
They'll still be fucked whatever they do now.
That you coming back from market?
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
That you coming back from market?
Like many people on bluesky I boycott instagram and other meta platforms, so no, I won't.
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Like many people on bluesky I boycott instagram and other meta platforms, so no, I won't.
Not just useful for late pollinators, it's also a food source for overwintering blackcaps which drink the nectar, as regularly seen at the end of our garden at this time of year!
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not just useful for late pollinators, it's also a food source for overwintering blackcaps which drink the nectar, as regularly seen at the end of our garden at this time of year!
Not usually, we had some a few years ago when a lot were blown off course during migration and I saw some then. The call is a kind of a tick similar to a robin, so fairly nondescript, but it's the first time it's occurred, so maybe....
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Not usually, we had some a few years ago when a lot were blown off course during migration and I saw some then. The call is a kind of a tick similar to a robin, so fairly nondescript, but it's the first time it's occurred, so maybe....
There's a lot flying over at dawn at the moment, most of which is reasonable, but maybe not the hawfinch that it picked up this morning!
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
There's a lot flying over at dawn at the moment, most of which is reasonable, but maybe not the hawfinch that it picked up this morning!
Gave us the squits big time when we ate it for the first time last year, now only grown as green manure that makes holes in the clay.
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Gave us the squits big time when we ate it for the first time last year, now only grown as green manure that makes holes in the clay.
Nah, just wants to make sure you stay out of the house for a couple of hours 😂
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Nah, just wants to make sure you stay out of the house for a couple of hours 😂
It was unscripted, he was flustered by the encounter and obviously didn't have McSweeney in his ear, that was when I realised just how shit he was.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It was unscripted, he was flustered by the encounter and obviously didn't have McSweeney in his ear, that was when I realised just how shit he was.
Also his complete ignorance in saying there was another decade left (at the time) for climate action.
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Also his complete ignorance in saying there was another decade left (at the time) for climate action.
His reaction to Green New Deal Rising a few years ago was especially nauseating and he showed his complete ignorance on climate.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
His reaction to Green New Deal Rising a few years ago was especially nauseating and he showed his complete ignorance on climate.