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#allotment

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Yvan

What is this weed? Dug out of a Norfolk UK allotment bed.

We saw these little fuzzy leaves poking out of the ground in the middle of our asparagus bed. I dug around them trying to get as much out as possible and my little trowel hit something that went crunch... I dug out this large root/rhizome/tuber... clearly not all of it either. It's huge!

I've no idea what this is.

Edit: as identified by @laurenheywood this is a bryony of some sort ... we actually had this weed growing amongst the asparagus last year and thought it might be some sort of cucumber, but then it had red berries. Turns out it's related to cucumber! I assumed it was some annual, not something with a huge tuber! No we know.

Some small fuzzy leaves held in a very dirty hand, they have long white stems on them extending to a large out of focus tuber behind.
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A large plant tuber with skinny white stems extending from it which end in small young green foliage.
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#GrowYourOwn#Weed#allotment
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Yvan

Another beaut arvo/evening down the #allotment

With the stress and anxiety of the job hunt over I am so much better at just getting things done. I don't fret endlessly when doing things that don't contribute to gaining employment. I can relax a little.

BST and the weather also has a huge role to play no doubt. Beautiful day, yesterday's sunshine but without the chill wind.

We finished sorting out the raspberry tunnel, fully woodchiped, coniferous on the raspberries, and willow on the path with mypex under it (figured we may as well use some of what came with the plot, probably the only place we'll use it.)

Bit of a general rejig and tidy, moving the slidy-puzzle pieces to access the next tasks... IBCs as scaffold to access shed roof.

Planted the broad beans and field beans.

A good day.

I spend a good chunk of time outdoors, but this week is the first time the sun has been strong enough that I now have some tan lines. 😅

Kat is Radish Top Girl.

A metal polytunnel frame without any plastic on it, extending away from the viewer, to the sides of the frame grow raspberry canes, they are in dark woodchip materal, and there is a path of paler woodchip up the centre, on which are a row of 4 200 litre tubs. A bird feeder hangs from the middle of the arch at each end. Some planters and other junk to the right, an IBC in front of a shed to the left, and woodchip in front to the foreground.
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A pair of IBCs, straight ahead one is upright in front of an octagonal shed, there are some planks atop it to access the shed roof, which is triangular holes rather than actual roof. The other IBC lays on its side to the left on a mount of dirt. To the right is the edge of the raspberry cage.
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Looking down onto a raised bed of dark compost where there are four rows of broad beans planted. Most of them are covered over with a mesh cage, a final nearer row is outside the cage and has a smaller cage up close against them sat on the bed.
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A short long dark haired person facing away from the camera, hair tucked into hoodie which shows as a purple hood with a black jacked over. The person wears s small white back pack out of which a large tuft of radish greens is showing. The person wears long shorts, exposing calves, and then brown hiking shoes. To the left a red sack barrow is tucked under the edge of a small corrugated roof storage shed, and to the right a large white porcelain sink sits on its side on a pallet alongside some other junk, beyond which is a pair of IBCs in front of the wall of a shed.
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Yvan

Meanwhile, Kat did a stellar job of weeding out the raspberry arch on the new #allotment plot. We'll get this covered in a thick layer of pine chipping next, and then an extra layer of willow chippings over the path. Considering re-using some of the old mypex for this central path.

Came home with a big bunch of greens... mustard leaf, dill, and some volunteer rocket weeded out of the coriander patch. Left the bean seedlings in the polytunnel as it was too windy to plant them out safely.

So yeah, a bit windy out, made the cycle a bit of a push... but on the plus side it was mainly sunny... colder than it looked, but the sun did the trick for us solar powered antipodean types. There were also more people out on the plots than we've seen in months. Good to see.

As we wound up for the day we were treated to a beaut sunset into the hedge on the opposite side of the site... the warm colours of the sky belying the immediate chill to the air that came with the sinking of the sun.

Looking towards a warm orange sunset, the orange-yellow light diffusing through some light grey clouds above as the sun sinks into a sparse early spring hedge. We're looking from the centre of an allotment plot with long raised beds in front of us extending to the right, and then a pallet fence and further plots between there and the hedge.
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Looking down the centre of a raspberry arch, bare canes left and right coming out of bare weeded earth. A metal frame surrounds the whole in a long rectangle, with uprights to the corners and along the long edges left and right. To the left an IBC and a blue tub, to the right some bricks, a roll of fencing wire, and some other allotment junk. In the foreground the edge of a woodchipped path, and beyond a the grassy neighbouring allotment plot.
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Yvan

All hail BST! I wish we had UTC+01:00 all year round to be honest.

Anyway, got some useful stuff done at home and then a late arvo into the evening of #allotment work has happened.

I progressed much further than I expected with the old compost bays at the back of the new plot. I thought I'd just get them emptied, maybe partially deconstructed... but no, they're entirely gone now and I have done the bulk of the earthwork to terrace the rear edge of the plot as well.

The bulk of the material from out of them is now in the greenhouse area. It's a sort of a soil-y dry compost mix with a lot of twig but some definite biomass. I think it'll be a good substrate as part of raising up the ground level inside the greenhouse.

Looking into a greenhouse frame from the front left corner, the frame is sans-glass, inside is sort of weedy dirt, and to the centre a large pile of compost/dirt. The frame is supported on railway sleepers. There are a load of black tubs lined up at the back of it and a stack of pallets beyond.
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Looking off the back of an allotment plot, an incinerator bin and blue tub in the foreground, broken dirts to the centre leading off an edge into a ditch beyond which is an overgrown grassy field. The dirt to the centre has a couple of pallets upright and lopsided to the right and joined at the top by a length of roofing tin.
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A view off the back of an allotment plot, it's the same view as the previous photo but a wider angle showing a pallet to the front right with some glass and a ceramic sink on its side on it, and a sort of wooden box to the left with some corrugated roofing on it. The key thing is that to the centre the lopsided pallets are gone and there is now just a mound of dirt along the length of the rear of the plot.
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Looking down along the back edge of the allotment plot, it has been excavated into a terrace with a drop down onto a ledge before this then drops down into a deep grassy ditch, an overgrown grassy field beyond to the left. To the foreground a right a long mound of dirt from the excavations along the length of the back of the plot with a couple of blue tubs in the distance next to the wall of a shed. To the immediate foreground the end of a fence, a post with some rails extending off the bottom left corner of the frame.
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Mike

Excellent allotment visit earlier today.

It was pleasant in the sun but a bit breezy.
We had a picnic lunch as usual but we took roast chicken slices, salad and croissants.

I dug out a weed pit after seeing the idea on here. Filled it with a lot of grass clods I'd dug out, and some prunings from various fruit bushes - covered with cardboard and weighted down with bricks.

Planted some more onion sets, parsnip seeds and a few broad bean seeds.

Sacha did a good job weeding the strawberry plants and tying in some of the loganberries.

All in all a very good few hours.

#allotment#leicestershire
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Richard Rollinson

It must be March in New England. We had a high temp yesterday of 79⁰F/26⁰C and today we're at 38⁰F/4⁰C. Par for the course. I noticed that the green bell pepper & tomato seedlings were starting to show some purple mottling on their leaves, which might be a phosphorus deficiency or maybe they're a little chilly, but I gave them a shot of liquid fertilizer this morning, just in case. It won't be too long before they get potted on (weather permitting).
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Zone6b

Close view from directly above of a green bell pepper seedling showing purple mottling on the leaves. Plant is about 2 inches/5cm across. It's in an orange silicone potting cell with brown potting mix. A wooden Popsicle stick marks the pot with date and plant id.
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Close view from directly above of a green bell pepper seedling showing purple mottling on the leaves. Plant is about 2 inches/5cm across. It's in an orange silicone potting cell with brown potting mix.
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A person's left hand holds a 500ml squeeze bottle filled with a slightly bluish liquid which is plant fertilizer. On the table behind is a tray containing silicone seed starting cells containing green bell pepper and tomato seedlings. Most of the seedlings are about 2 inches/5cm across. In background are other seed starting trays under fluorescent lights.
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Yvan

Bean transport ... hopefully they survive a ride, they're a little "leggy" and are going to need some support in the ground I reckon (especially on this windy day!) This is half aquadulce broad beans and half vespa field beans. And it's about time I got a second sowing in.

Pondering seed saving: do I need to worry that field beans and broad beans might cross-polinate?

A blue plastic shopping basket attached to the front of a bicycle, the basked contains long broadbean seedlings surrounded by a cardboard box wind-shroud.
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rooftopjaxx

So that clump of yarrow in its new home will hopefully perk back up after being trapped in a bag overnight, and there's a wet scrape in the making. Whether beneath the gooseberry is the best place for the scrape is perhaps debatable though?
Also been making progress on the new front gate (not shown).
#Allotment

A clump of yarrow transplanted into small patch of semi-arid substrate recently created in between some of the pre-cast concrete sections scattered at the back of the allotment.
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View over a small gooseberry showing the newly planted yarrow in its bed. Beyond various detritus including a black plastic pond liner, reeds in the pond, Tête à Tête narcissus in the tractor tyre raised bed, the dead hedge
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Beginnings of a wet scrape using the lid of a blue plastic food barrel filled with various sized pieces of rubble and broken clay pipe.
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Mactonex

Spent the afternoon at the allotment and I got a fair amount done but it was cold, very blustery and trying very hard to rain. Glad to be home in the warm ready to get acquainted with a glass of wine, a peanut butter curry and this handful of kale flower stems. #allotment #kale

A large handful of kale flower stems sitting on an oak cutting board.
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Richard Rollinson

My garden starts all seem to have survived my absence, thanks to my daughter stepping in. Will be time to move things out to the greenhouse in a few days and start potting-up. Spent a while this morning pricking out 8 dozen snapdragon seedlings to pot on. Not my favorite job, but my wife's got to have her snap dragon display. Quite warm today, but more frost coming in a day or two. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening

A multi-tier fluorescent light plant propagator setup with 4 shelves full of seedlings. We have eggplant, bell pepper, jalapeño, tomato x3, beets, cabbage, lettuce x2, snapdragon, cleome, viola, and probably something I can't remember.
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A small black plastic seed starting tray with someone's left hand pricking out snapdragon seedlings. To the right are the 6-cell silicone plant tray they are getting planted into.
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Yvan

Job I've been meaning to do for about a week... parsnip seeds spread out on damp paper. Trying this method for the first time.

What other seeds do people try pre-germinating before planting in the ground or modules?

A grid of parsnip seeds spread out on some damp paper towel with a clear plastic hood/lid lent up behind them.
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