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38d

Some seeds drying on plates before storing and/or seed saving. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Allotment #SeedSaving #Solarpunk

Seven plates of heirloom seeds on a kitchen top will be moved to the windowsill to dry. The top row of three plates have a black bean called noir bush , some woad seeds, next to Jacob’s cattle gold bush bean which are gold and white in colour. The middle two plates are Latvian peas which are a lighter brown and Carlin peas a darker brown colour. The plate on the front left contains mostly a brown bean called bonne bouche with a dozen black and white ying yang beans, only two Madeira maroon beans and a dozen chickpeas. The last plate contains purple and white Jacob’s cattle bush beans.

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29d

The compost area on the plot. The compost in the bays will be turned into the daleks to mature. More compost from elsewhere on the plot can then be added to the bays. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig

Four pallets and an old section of wooden fence make up two bays for storing compost. One bay is about a third full and the other is two thirds full of homemade compost. Three plastic daleks of compost line the other side of the fence section. One dalek has its lid off to reveal a full container of maturing compost. A 20 year old wheelbarrow and two planters of carrots are in front of the compost bays. One of the plot robins is standing on the back pallet seeing if there are any worms to be had.

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Even a small pond is worthwhile. There’s been so much insect life in and around this little pond that was put in earlier this year. Spiders, hoverflies, flies, solitary bees, newts, frogs. #Pond #Ponds #Biodiversity #Gardening #Allotment

A small container pond with green algae and various pond plants flag iris, brooklime, bog bean, lesser spearwort, hornwort and water violet. There’s a gentle slope of stones down from one end towards the middle. The pond is surrounded by various flowers. Orange marigolds, white alyssum, borage that’s gone over, pink cosmos and some purple bowles mauve.

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5d

There’s no such thing as having too much compost. There’s more to bring over from another plot. #Compost #Composting #Gardening #Mulch #Allotment #SolarPunk

Front of an allotment plot with two compost heaps. One is freshly built and green. The other is older, smaller and a darker brown. Behind the compost piles a rhubarb plant is starting to wilt. Huauzontle Aztec broccoli leaves have gone pink and a tree spinach is setting seed. A rudimentary fence has been set up on the other side of the plot to protect autumn sown crops from the muntjac.

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Two compost bays with maturing compost in both. One pile is finer quality than the other. Two planters of carrots are in front of one of the bays. Bamboo canes stand upright in the pallets that divide the two bays. An old garden fence divides the second compost bay from various compost daleks. There are six in total, not all in view. Two contain wood chip, one has maturing compost for next years potting mix, two have fresh veg scraps, one contains sawdust. Behind the compost bays is a dead hedge of sorts and a hedge lined boundary of a nature reserve.

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113d

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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106d

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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163d

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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134d

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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84d

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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106d

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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