Digging potato trenches on the plot (is bloomin' hard graft!):
My allotment buddy! She greeted me the very first time I opened the gates, and she's often around, keen to leap up with her (claws out!) paws, so high and happy. I'm happiest on the days I find she's around! It was high time (literally) that I transplanted my courgette saplings, as they were growing (in my house) towards my bayview window, leaves in paw-like fashion, as if clawing to shout 'Let me Out!' - So I did: Planting potatoes on the plot was also long-awaited. Having got my allotment in early May, I had missed the planting of the first crop of potatoes. But seeing potato seeds still in the shop, and even hearing the allotment committee pronounce it 'too late' to plant potatoes, I felt unwavered. Seasons are funny and late in this era, and anyway it only takes potatoes between two and three months to harvest. So I let the late-bought seeds shoot away in a dark cupboard (they seem to do as well in dark as in light), and I took advantage of the first spate of dry weather all week. Digging potato trenches on the plot (is bloomin' hard graft!): I felt quite awake of a Saturday morning to be digging a couple of foot-deep trenches in the prepared soil. Phew! Planting is really one of the best bits of gardening - watering gently in, hoping and waiting like a proud parent... Sudden appearance of poppies on the plot! See the snugly, happy bee getting drunk on pollen on the left, a lovely sight:
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Good to see that the shop Lush are using a shop window to show they are against the badger cull - which is still going on in the 'pilot' zones, and which Owen Paterson has only delayed nationally.
I've written again about the badger cull in the new printed issue of Athemaura - how proper, scientific measures could be taken and be more humane and comparably more effective (ie inoculating bovine, since it's a farming/meat industry issue) . Sign the direct.gov.uk registered petition against the continuing badger cull. |
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