Allotment cat being bribed to stop messing around.

He’s a soft touch, plus I know where he keeps the treats.

Black and white allotment cat rolling around on the bed where I’m trying to plant my spuds, note radish seedlings down the middle.

What an excellent day for interfering with Tony’s efforts to plant his Caledonian Rose maincrop potatoes, it’s such a shame about that row of radish he’s sown down the middle as a catch crop like they tell you to 😹.
#AllotmentLife #UKGardening

Still getting ground frosts where we are in East Anglia, too risky for beans at the moment.

Also good to stick some in a drum, make them wet and compost for a couple of years if you have enough, it's a great soil improver to encourage fungi.

Meanwhile people still consume meat.

The race is on 😂

Same here, I'm also spending time snipping off blackened early strawberry flowers!

Buried deep in the article is the reason for the increased expense, electricity is too expensive due to the link with gas prices, something that Vince argues should be broken, so he's not only irresponible but dishonest, and I'm not sure who's side he's on any more.
@annieleymarie.bsky.social

It's standard 30g sq m weight (the heavier grade) horticultural fleece, more normally used to keep frost off plants, it's some non-woven synthetic stuff. I find it useful to use it in this way until the peas have grown up and got their tendrils around the netting when it's windy in the spring.

A bed of broad bean plants.

A broad bean plant with three stems and some flowers.

Climbing pea plants growing in a sandwich of fleece, with the sun shining we can see how much they've grown.

The spring sown Express broad beans have grown fast in just seven weeks, developing into stocky, multi-stemmed plants which are flowering.
Three weeks after planting out, the sun shows the Alderman climbing peas have shot up in their fleece sandwich and maybe it's time to let them out. #UKGardening🌱

We’re still getting light frosts here, we’ve just had three in a row, we won’t be safe until after mid May, so I haven’t even started squash and beans yet.

I hope I remembered correctly that you were interested how these worked out.

They're about 20cm tall, last year I planted out at the very end of April. I keep them in the modules for two months, so I feed them weekly after one month using half-strength houseplant food, watering from below (best way with full modules), maybe if you did that you could keep yours going longer?

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Some larger onion plants, maybe starting to form bulbs.

Meanwhile, the overwintered Japanese onion plants sown in late August and planted out in September are an impressive size and look as if they’re starting to form bulbs already, and it’s only April!
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Planting of onion seedlings in progress, some have been planted in a bed already while some plugs of seedlings are in a tray in the foreground, some planting implements can also be seen.

A big onion planting out session at the allotment today, 2 beds filled with 90 modules of multi-sown seedlings which I’d been nurturing since mid-February, total number of plants about 300, Hylander F1 brown onions, Red Baron, Long Red Florence and Zebrune shallots. #UKGardening 🌱

If you choose the lesser evil, you still choose evil.

Mine are going out tomorrow, 90 modules in 2 beds but multisown, with 2-4 seedlings in each module.

Oops

I’ll tag you when I be post results later.

I was in the end of terrace house on Rhodesia avenue that faced the allotments, so it was just across the road from their plot, I wasn't such a keen veg grower in those days though.

A long time ago I house sat in Chapel lane for a Prof in the Uni department where I worked and had to pick and blanch their beans for them, so I know the site.

Very sad, where was this? I used to live in Bradford.

I've got one of those as well!

💯

The gambling industry brings joy mostly to Denise Coates and misery to desperate people wasting money on scratch cards.

That one looks like he's still pissed off about women getting the vote.

Response 4. Block?

It isn't a ceasefire because Israel doesn't do ceasefires.

“Divisive reform leader”, aka fascist cunt.