Acorns

I noticed this morning that a few of the acorns that I left laying on the top of soil in pots  (which had been planted with acorns) had started to send out a root into the soil. Brilliant, I have encouraged them to take root, now I simply need to wait 300 years for the end result.

clearing

last weekend Will and I spent a few hours clearing the dead weeds and onions that had gone to seed from the beds that were the old vegetable patch of his new house. once dug they will become vegetable patch once more ;-)

welcome

Welcomes Cara, Richard and Julia to the allotment. Yay, allotment gardening gets sociable ;-)

Community Garden oct 09

Whilst at the community garden this week (while at work) I took this picture.

At the Mill

Wills patch at the mill has been left to 'grow over' since the end of the summer, as he is going to be leaving the mill site in the not to distant future. What is particularly nice is that the meadow where the vegetable garden was,  was turned into a vegetable garden by ourselves a couple of years back, and now has been allowed to return to its orriginal state, our vegetable growing having no long term effects on the locality, with exception to the introduction of a bench which we have said we will be laving so that the family who own the site can enjoy the view over their meadow from that position in the field.

fence

The new fence for the garden at my house has been delivered. It just needs putting up now, which may take many months to get around to doing.

Tree seeds

Julia and I collected some tree seeds and I planted them in a bed on the allotment. Hopefully some will grow in the spring into seedlings that can then be planted where I would like to grow some trees.

Making Cider

We went to Wills parents today and picked pears and apples, crushed and pressed them and put the juice into a fermenting container to ferment and make cider :-)

Back Hamlet Field allotments October 2009

Where I garden

Maidenhall allotments on a Monday morning (Ipswich Community Garden) with work.

My garden

My allotment