 Finding a rabbit a chocolate one that is!although there are lots of real ones on our site  Swapping tips and seeds  .   The children were looking at tadpoles before they were being put into our pond.
 Hello plot holders this is a picture of children hunting for eggs on our red hill allotment site last year. This year we will be doing it again along side our annual seed swap. Both events will be held together on the communal area on the 3rd of April, you can come to the seed swap any time between two and four . If you don't want the your children to miss out on the egg hunt then they need to be there at two.
Iris and Mary will be helping the children with the egg hunt  For those of you not familiar with a seed swap you bring along any unwanted in date seeds and you should be able to swap each packet for another of your choice. You don't have to have a full packet of seeds you can bring along some that you have too many off.
All seeds packets must have their name and basic instructions on. Hilary and friend will be helping supervise the seed swap.
Winter wonderland
by iris
at 8:53 AM
   Hi every one this is my first blog so will try to keep it short and interesting. There is suposed to be a robin some where in the first picture! Some photo's I took this winter, I am sure although very beautiful every one like me will be happy to see the snow gone so we can get on with some serious gardening.
  The pond is really starting to look good thanks to all the volunteers that have helped. More help is needed with the pond planting in April see notice board or Hilary. Also help is require to finish the path see Gary Hilary or Iris on how you can help. Happy gardening now the sun is shining Iris
Thursday 29th October 2009 Hello fellow gardeners...! Well Autumn draws on and the jobs of tidying and cutting back are upon us all. Im hoping to maintain this blog and website, in the same fashion as Dave and Miranda have since its creation - and thanks to them for providing us with a method of all keeping in touch. If you have any ideas of what you would like to see on the website please speak to me onsite, or mail me at clerkmark@gmail.com or marklin1@hotmail.co.uk and i will do my best to get things up and running. MarkB (plot 48a Organics)
 Today Marc and I really needed to get plants in at the lottie. Blimey it was grim and really wet :( Luckily later on this afternoon the rain finally stopped and I got out into my back garden. I had an entire table full of bedding plants to pot out; petunias, coleus, impatiens, lisianthus. I found a random climbing french bean so I put that in my flower bed also! I planted out some asters, dahlias, a new gooseberry bush. My sweet peas went into their pot. I sowed a second sowing of carrots (Royal Chantenay) and finally got round to sowing salad. I am now pooped and think a glass of wine is in order. Labels: asters, coleus, dahlias, impatiens, lisianthus, petunias
  This weekend the pond was dug out by Gary, John, Steve, Marc and a little help form me (I think I probably just slowed everyone down more than helped!) But oh my it was brilliant fun!!!!!!!!!!! My favourite was the little scoopy Bobcat thingie I'm sitting in. The digger was cool but it took some serious hand eye co-ordination and not being very good at computer games I think my hand eye co-ordination is a bit ropey! I am amazed at Gary and Steve they just kept on going for two days solid. It was worth it thought, the pond looks amazing :) I am now sitting at home with huge sunburn, despite wearing factor 15, I have the worst skin ever. It is typical 'Welsh never sees the sunlight skin'. I'm considering buying a Craghoppers shirt with built in UV protection. Cool and practical, so when I feel my skin has had enough I can pop it on. I need something... More pics of the digging weekend can be found in the gallery section. Labels: Bobcat, Craghoppers, Digger, wildlife pond
Composting event
by Mi
at 2:46 PM
  Despite the rain (and there was lots of it!) our composting event went very well indeed today. A lovely lady called Sallie came from WRAP and talked to us all about the In's and Out's of composting; Which bugs live in your compost (Primary eaters such as bacteria, fungi and fruit flies, Secondary eaters such as Springtails, and Tertiary eaters such as beetles and centipedes). What to add and what not to add (Yes to things such as veg peelings, green garden waste, cardboard, citrus peel, annual weeds before they seed and even such things as hair and vegetarian animal bedding. No to such things as perennial weed root although these can be dried or drown then added, meat, dairy and cooked food). Things that were thought to be by many unsuitable for the compost bin such as rhubarb leaf are fine. Although toxic for consumption the toxins break down when being composted. Luckily we managed to squeeze inside our storage container as the rain came down very heavily a few times! Leicestershire county council also have a 'Rot-a-lot' home composting club that you can join for free and you will receive information and a free home composting pack (that includes a free composting caddy). Email compost@leics.gov.uk I hope everyone who went enjoyed the event despite the weather. Please remember to pass on your comments good or bad on to the social committee at the site, or email us( socialcommittee@redhillallotments.co.uk) so that we can improve the events we offer, or the way they are run. Also if you have an idea for any other events you would like to see at the site please email your suggestions also. Labels: Composting, recyclenow, WRAP
 Things are starting to speed up now. It's getting to that crazy time when all you seem to be doing is planting out! Today the broad beans, peas and mange tout went in. Marc did a cracking job making the wigwams and getting the plants in, he even put a layer of poo all round so hopefully they will get a good feed as well. I can almost taste them already, the veg that is... The pumpkins in the greenhouse already have flowers on them but there is no way they are going out for a few more weeks, I'd rather chance losing a few flowers than losing the actual plants with a late frost. I think everything else we have will wait a few more weeks before they go in so there is less fear of frost. We came home with a lovely crop of rhubarb, which was boosted generously by a donation from Gary. I'm going to attempt my first ever rhubarb jam. I never get enough for making jam as we usually end up eating all of our crop straight away! Labels: jam, Planting
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