Wednesday, 6 June 2012

A Hastings Allotment

We visited friends in Hastings who have just taken tenancy of a plot on a site with a cracking view. We're green with envy, not only do they have cliffs and seascapes, they have a composting toilet, use of a communal shed and hoses and standpipes... oh AND badgers.

Inspiration for our future shed,though wethinks there will be a stipulated maximum height. The 6ftx6ft footprint of our future shed is already being monitored even though it is smaller in area than the compost bins that would have otherwise been built on the deep-shaded patch of our plot where not much is able to grow. Whatevs!

Monday, 4 June 2012

Red, White and Blue

The Spirit of Chartwell
Royal Rowbarge Gloriana

After spending yesterday out, bared to the elements (ain't we daft), celebrating the Queen's Jubilee and waving on the flotilla participating in the Thames River Pageant here are some red, white and blue pics of the allotment to continue the jubilations.

Corizus Hyoscyami

Saturday, 2 June 2012

Going On A Wild Flag Iris Hunt...

We went downt to Epping Forest today to see the wild flag irises.

Strawberry Hill Pond

Lost Pond

We had a Spring Watch moment... which made us look up

A tawny owl was keeping an eye on us.

Curiouser and curiouser! We spotted this scrambled egg slime mould (Fuligo septica) at our feet. So if you go down to the woods today...

Sunday, 27 May 2012

Plot 57b in Bloom

After admiring the flag iris around the Culpeper Community Garden pond we nipped over to the allotment to check on our own pond.

✩ Our first flag iris ✩

Hooray for Dock Bugs doing it!

The Ragged Robin is flowering its socks off...

... and the creeping buttercup is too pretty to cut back just yet.

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Culpeper Community Garden

Since we were passing by, we made some time to visit Culpeper Community Garden to take a peek at the smooth newts that make a home of the pond.

We spotted our first Flag Iris of the season.

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Salad Days

Finally, our first radishes are fattened and ready for eating.

Admittedly we've not been consistent in our successional sowing but, there's plenty for a couple more salads yet.

Sunday, 20 May 2012

Selfridges Says ...

Word on Oxford street, allotmenting ranks with queueing for festival portaloos and builders sipping tea as meme of British good times, capers and high jinks.

Coo, look at the size of those brassicas! We ♥ the current Selfridges windows.