October 2007
5 posts
From the archives: Beans and Radishes
Planted some broad beans (“Aquadulce Claudia”) today, four rows of them. They’ve got some lovely compost to grow down into from all our trench-digging.
Pulled up some of the radishes – not the most popular plant amongst the allotmenteers, but really nice in my humble opinion.
Had a look under the fleece at the cabbages etc, which are mostly going well. A few have been munched a bit, and one or...
From the archives: Today, we...
…covered radishes, cabbages etc with fleece to keep the imminent frost off.
…planted some herbs (courtesy of Rich’s mum).
…made compost (and added some magic powder to the heap that makes it work quicker).
…ate biscuits.
…found a gnome that has moved in.
— Ollie
From the archives: Compost
Sunday 7th October:
Ollie and Rich invaded the compost bin, pulling out plenty of carpet and a load of plastic – the previous occupier seems to have ignored the “compost” bit of “compost bin”.
Underneath all the junk, there was some decent rotted stuff. We split the bin in two with a door (expertly made to fit by Rich, with a little precision whacking with the hammer). This should let us have...