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As is my custom every Earth Day here is Walt Kelly's iconic Earth Day 1970 poster. After all these years the message is still the same!
#earthday
#ClimateChange
#gardening
#Allotment

Walt Kelly's iconic cartoon character, Pogo. looks back over his left shoulder at the viewer. He is confronted with a forest and wetland completely ruined with trash and pollution. His thought comment aboce says: "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us" Original artwork by cartoonist Walt Kelly.

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When nipping out to go to the post office I noticed it was fairly still, so I grabbed the shitty little drone and managed to take some iffy #allotment photos without losing it (it tried to bugger off elsewhere a couple of times, as usual, bastard thing.)

For the uninitiated, our plots are the one with the biggest #polytunnel in the middle and the one next to it with the glassless #greenhouse frame adjacent to one end of the polytunnel... and lots of junk (current main work-in-progress).

No rain here so far today, but cold and drab outside, uninspiring weather - apparently rain or even snow tonight, I'd like a bit of snow... snow is fun.

For comparison here is where we were at in late October: https://toot.ale.gd/@yvan/113375010347200497

Overhead drone photo of allotment plots, two centred where the one below has a large polytunnel across the middle of it and the one above has a greenhouse frame to the middle-bottom, both are brown with dirt and woodchip, the half-depicted plot to the top is all green weeds, and the similarly half one to the bottom has a lot of black plastic weed fabric over it. To the right a trackway and weedy plot with a greenhouse to the top, to the left a ditch and then long grassy field.

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Oblique angle shot of some allotment plots, to the centre right are our plots, the back one with the large polytunnel across the middle and three raised beds in front, and the foreground one which is a muddy and woodchippy work in progress with a glassless greenhouse frame centre and towards the polytunnel in the other plot. Various other plots surround in a long narrow strip of plots either side of a central track. To both edges a ditch, the left ditch has a row of trees/rough-hedge to the other side of it and then a green grassy field, the other side has a rough grassy/weedy field.

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Bumblebees are on the blackberries and the sambucus nigra is showing off. #Gardening #Allotment #Bees #Pollinators #GrowYourOwn

A white tailed bumblebee with a yellow band on its abdomen and thorax is finding a lot to love about the wild blackberry flowers. The white flowers are on show with lots more flower buds getting ready to open.

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A blue shed in the background is partially hidden by a plum tree. A burgundy coloured sambucus nigra elder stands out against the green foliage of trees behind it. Its lighter coloured wide flower heads are clearly showing. Comfrey plants dominate the foreground underneath.

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The pond on the allotment. #Gardening #Allotment

A small container pond on an allotment with some slates and stones around the edge. An iris is protruding upwards from the pond. The water level is low and needs topping up but rainwater is a sought after commodity here at the moment. The water surface is covered in small green leaves from the pond plants. The outside of the pond has been planted up with some white flowering alyssum, purple lobelia and red and yellow french marigolds. Yet to flower is some borage, common oregano and cosmos. The pond is partly surrounded with a wood chip mulch.

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98d

Per falĉileto
Mi rikoltas rabarbon
Printempa kuko
#allotment #hajko

Rabarbo kun eta metala kaj ligna falĉileto sur verda herbo en sunlumo

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69d

It’s been six months since taking on the back half and three and a half months for the front half. Then to now photo comparison taken from the same spot. #Allotment #NoDig

An overgrown allotment plot in mid November. Yellowed leaves of raspberries dot around the front dominated with green fresh growing grass or the dead brown variety. In the distance the brown shed can be seen with its black square window. A sprawling blackberry bramble is halfway down.

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Same plot, in mid May. The ground has been cleared of undergrowth and largely mulched. Raspberry canes are in full leaf and bumblebees, honey bees and solutary bees are visiting often. Various bamboo cane structures are up to support climbing plants. A wood chipped central path follows past the blackberry now trained to posts and wires and down to a just visible extended blue shed. An orange bucket indicates where a container small pond is located. The only thing that’s been cropped from this plot so far has been an out of picture rhubarb but there will be lots of harvests to come.

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Compost maturing in the pallet bays. I find making compost a very therapeutic process. #Compost #Composting #Gardening #Allotment

Five pallets form three rudimentary bays on an allotment plot. The first bay is full of water butts and bags of wood chip. The other two bays contain compost. Two planters made from an old water butt are also filled with sieved compost and stand in front of one of the compost bays.

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I finally got around to moving the compost pile for the first time in 6 weeks. I started making this compost in December and it’s looking pretty nice. It will make a good mulching compost for some of the beds next spring.

The hot compost has hit the red zone so🤞will continue to stay above 55°C for two more days when it will be turned again. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment

Two piles of home made compost either side of a plum tree on an allotment plot. Beyond the tree is a mini wall of comfrey which will be cut once it has stopped flowering. A selection of lidded dustbins are being used to store tapped water and allow it to chlorinate off. A wheelbarrow is next to the bins. The plot is surrounded by greenery. Trees and a hedge are to one side with trees in the distance. The compost piles are in the shady side of the plot. Sunshine hits the other side.

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A compost thermometer is in the red zone marked hot. The temperature is almost hitting 58°C. Grass and wood shavings make up the outer layer of the compost pile which the thermometer has been placed into.

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