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#allotment

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M.Paola

Interesting. I haven't kept track of my harvest for a few years now, but decided to weight the apples and pears. I currently have about 10 crates in the shed and each weights around 15 kg when full, so a back of the napkin calculation sees me breaking even with the #allotment rent this year. Of course there are the persimmons, early apple and pears, grapes, mulberries, cherries and soft fruits on top, so not too bad a year, but hardly covers the previous ones when the plants were still growing.

The crates stacked up on a shelf in the shed
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Richard Rollinson

Just finished entering the data for week # four of this season's Project Feeder Watch.
The data may be viewed here:
data.feederwatch.org/pfw/count

We had 19 species and 124 individuals this week, including a rare sighting of a Northern Flicker. The Red-Winged Blackbirds have gone, but the Grackles are back in lower numbers. The Red Shouldered Hawk is still hanging around making everyone nervous. Still one chipmunk stocking up on seed.
#Birds
#ProjectFeederWatch
#NewEngland
#Gardening
#Allotment

data.feederwatch.orgProject FeederWatch - Count Summary
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Wellingborough Eco Group

Great FREE RANGE in our nature garden today!

Wellingborough Eco Group Nature Rangers

This time we were at our Community Allotment as we are every four weeks 10am to 2pm. We installed a bath tub pond, created some frames for ivy to grow up and we cleared leaves on the path in the copse behind our plot, where we also added somewood chips to stop it being slippery. It's starting to look great, well done and thank you all!

wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/ #eco #nature #allotment #wellingborough

Tidying the nature garden
Filling up.the bath tub pond
All in.the poly-tunnel
Dressing the path with woodchips
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Yvan

Not one but two #allotment postcards today! Catching us up to November 9th.

Harvesting potatoes, planting garlic.

I am now a convert to just sticking potatoes in the ground. The yields! We have been tub potato growers for years, but due to a lack of space. We stuck with it, but having just plugged them into the ground this year and let them done their thing, almost entirely hands-off, I don't think I can go back to bothering with tubs again (unless forced by circumstance of course.)

youtu.be/1IlWwwKVF6A

YouTubepostcard #44 — Nov 2nd/9th 2025 — slabs! Potato harvest & garlic plant.By Postcards from our Allotment
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Lauren

Two months ago I chucked down mustard, field beans, forage peas, lupins, phacelia and vetch seed as green manure. The first pic is of it three weeks ago and it had gotten much taller since with the mustard and beans in flower.

Today I decided to chop it back to dig it in so the mustard can breakdown in the ground. I had to clear my leeks because of leaf miner. Dug up the last of my desiree spuds. Still need to take my runner beans down. Will plant broad beans and field beans soon

A 2 by 4 meter patch of green manure. The mixed plants are between 20 and 60 centimeters high.
The same 2 by 4 meter patch of green manure but now chopped back with the leaves laying on the ground. This is an expanded view compared to the first image so the surroundings can be seen. A row of calendula flowers boarder the right edge of the green manure plants. Grass and a hedgerow can be seen behind the cultivated ground. At the bottom of the frame the photographer's boots can be seen stood on a paved path.
The same shot as the previous image but now the chopped green manure plants have been dug into the soil. Patches of green leaves are scattered on the surface of the newly dug dark earth.
A wider shot from the opposite side of the vegetable bed from the other photos. The wider bed can be seen in the foreground with the path behind and another identical sized bed on the other side of the bed in the background. The other bed still has mixed flowers and greenery remaining. A hedgerow can be seen bordering the allotment garden, with structures from neighbouring plots seen behind. Above a late afternoon autumnal blue sky can be seen with whispy white clouds streaked across.
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Lauren

I came back from my travels yesterday evening and did a quick trip to the allotment to check things were fairing okay. The snapdragons are back in bloom and my August-sown calendula plants are coming into flower. Made a couple of posies for the mantelpiece.

A small flower posy containing one white and yellow snapdragon stem, three steams of pale purple dahlia with a pompone shape and yellow centre, and two small stems of perennial white asters to use as spray.
Three stems of calendula flowers. They have very dense rows of petals, with the tips of the petals in a dark burnt orange and the rest of the petal being a pale peachy orange. Where the petals are still closed in the centre it gives the impression of a dark centre even though it’s just the burnt orange colour of the upright petal tips showing.
#allotment#bloomscrolling
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Lauren

I’ve spent quite a while collecting and sorting seeds to give away to allotment neighbours. I do a lot of swaps with friends already but it’s hard to reach people on site that might appreciate them.

So this is my solution: bunging ‘em in the meeting shed and writing signs all over the site to tell people they’re there. (Including pedantic info about the tape because some people like to kick off at anything.)

It’s nice to be nice 🌼

On an indoor wooden table sits a cardboard box and a plastic box, both containing small envelopes of various seeds. The cardboard box has the handwritten words FLOWER SEEDS and flower stickers on it. The plastic box has the handwritten words FREE VEG AND HERB SEEDS FROM PLOT 44.
A photo of inside the plastic box showing the seed envelopes including visible labels for Sutherland Kale and Giant Italian Parsley
Four rows of green tape placed horizontally and slightly overlapping one another, against the shiny translucent plastic of a notice board. A cork board surface sits behind the plastic. On to the green tape the words FREE SEEDS IN MEETING SHED have been written in large bubble text, with FROM PLOT 44 written in smaller text in the bottom right and the words THIS IS REMOVABLE PAINTERS TAPE AND CHALK PEN written in the top right.
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Lauren

A lot of the plot is still going strong. I’ve been clearing some areas but a lot of stuff is still going including tomatoes and peppers.

I gave up weeding in any meaningful way as I was expecting things to start dying back and I would have to prepare beds for winter anyhow.

Started digging over a new bit at the front of the new left half (covered in blue tarp in 4th photo). Eventually I’ll have matching rows on either side of lavender and dahlias

A central section of a large garden bed. In the centre is a row of mixed flowers: statice, cornflowers and snapdragons mostly of varying colours. To the left slightly obscured are strawflowers in a row. To the right there is a row of leeks. A hawthorn hedgerow can be seen in the background.
A large garden bed with mostly 3 rows of winter leeks and a 1.5 meter wide frame of runner beans growing. The left is a mix of green manure plants including: field beans, vetch, field peas, phacelia, mustard. A seaside style plastic windmill decoration is stood tall stuck in the top of a bamboo cane. A row of coffee pods have been strung up on a line as a pigeon scarer. A hawthorn hedge can be seen in the background.
In the foreground is a tall purple perennial aster plant. Directly behind and to the side of this is a shorter white perennial aster to the left and a climbing rose plant clumsily sticking out everywhere. Behind these in the same bed are hollyhock plant that have had their spent stems cut back but one plant is flowering again with dark red blooms. Behind that is a yellow helenium and a bright blue and grey painted potting shed. The potting shed has a very shaky system of guttering strapped to it leading into a blue plastic barrel for collection. To the right of this bed and potting shed is a row of bamboo canes that formed a frame for now spent plants. The hawthorn hedge can be seen at the very back of the image.
A view on to the allotment plot from the front gate, the image was taken from a high angle with camera positioned above the photographer’s head. A central path leads up to a tall line of trees at the very back which has a pink shed in front of it. Either side of the path are large beds with a mixture of herbs, flowers and edible crops. Various structures can be seen but are mostly obscured by foliage of some kind. The potting shed and two greenhouses are on the right side. A series of raised boxes and containers can be seen on the left side. Blue skies with white clouds hang above.
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Lauren

Having a coffee break with giant acorns raining down around me. Not just a good year for fruit trees

Also, newly repainted table top with an aldi-special paint. So I’m the proud owner of a lavender table and a pink shed 💅🏻

Two 3cm long acorns on a slatted table top with a travel mug, pot of burts bees hand cream, and lump hammer for scale
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Lauren

These have been in the house a few days now but I really love the dahlia in the middle. All my dahlias are grown from seed so I have no idea what they’ll look like until they bloom. This is a new one from this year to add to the collection

A large glass jar holding a bouquet of flowers. In focus in the front centre is a white dahlia, a purple blush on the outer petals and a yellow centre. Behind are other blooms, a mix of white asters, orange double pompone dahlias, and statice slightly out of shot behind. Held up in front of a red brick wall.
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Lauren

I’ve had a high octane evening sorting through my remaining shallots. I’ve been eating the biggest ones over the summer and I want to pickle some of the small to medium sized ones. The smallest ones are getting saved to be planted next year.

Feel proud of them all laid out 🥲

A large tray of 100 plus shallots organised by size with the largest arranged at the top of the photo going down to the smallest at the bottom.
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