Month: July 2011

I have started clearing the wilderness that both my plot and hubby’s had become, the endless rainshowers having not so much made the soil muddy as workable again -especially the new bit, which was compacted and very much like concrete under the spade. I will take sone pics over the weekend, as it is starting…

This year I have lost my gooseberries to pigeons once again. It happened in the first year when I did not know what that bush was. Then I netted it the second and third years, and had bumper crops. This year, despite the netting, they were gone and I was left with only 2 punnets,…

… so this morning, when I found myself awake in bed at 5 AM, thinking of the plumber and work, I decided I would get up for a change and go to the allotment to relax. And so I did. Rather strange for someone who, like myself, is definitely not a morning person, I thought…