If only one could eat weeds...

Well having not been up to the allotment in a week due to exams I find the allotment a foot high in weeds. One person said "Don't see them as weeds see them as green manure"... except for it's mainly bind weed, which unless I want even more of the things then I'm not going to compost.

Yes that field of green you can see is indeed half of my plot... eek! Only a week ago that was one or two weeds, if only we could eat weeds then the world's population would never go hungry again! I'm going to have to strim it - when indeed someone with a key to the main shed turns up, and then cover it with black plastic, luckily at the moment there is nothing I particularly want to plant bar some corn flowers which I can put down at anytime.



The joys of being blond and fair skinned means I get burnt very easily, I've only just got rid of the burn lines from the last time... not going to happen again! And the sunglasses is to stop hayfever, not a good thing to have on an allotment when you're pulling up weeds...


This is the little herb garden I have, I have a ceramic pot I need to plant the rosemary in. Slugs and snails love herb gardens be forewarned, and the easiest thing as nasty as it is is slug pellets, does the job very very easily!



My potatoes are doing fantastically well, they're really strong plants... this is the Desiree type so a main crop, which is okay, just takes a little while longer for them to grow, next to them on the left out of the picture is another row half the height which I planted later on so as to get a stunted harvest time...That green patch infront of the chairs isn't my plot... well the front foot is but the bit in front of that isn't... it's where everyone parks their cars... and that red and blue monstrosity is the shed for the local garden volunteers (we back onto the downs) but my shed will soon be blocking it on those paving slabs :D


The latest addition, as of today is that bench, we've had it for years at our old house and now it has a new home... the fun of getting that up to the allotment in my little Peugeot (albeit I can't drive yet haha... ) was most interesting, we had tied the boot down with string which snapped half way to the allotment... fun fun fun!! I'm planning on putting the cornflowers just in front of it.


That's my plot, with the neighbors plot... their plot puts everyone else's to shame, seriously raised beds, and all so neat and trim, but they do have 4 plots dotted around the area so you'd expect them to be pros. Those rows of greenery are where I've planted things and don't know what I'm looking for, so waiting for some sign of normality, so far no luck :(

The dog with her bright pink bowl... looks garish I know but in the middle of a plot it's easy for both us and her to find.

As you can see the weeds really took hold, at the front it's meant to be Beetroot, Squash and Brussel Sprouts... yeah no joy... well that's not quite true, they're doing well.



The left side before weeding...


The right side after weeding. I filled 6 bin bags today with weeds, and hardly seem to have made a dent... joys eh! Well I'll update you again soon.