(Weed, Dig, Cover) Repeat

Activity is rather repetitive at the allotment at the moment and I won’t bore you with photos of the beds that we cleared, weeded and dug last week. The plot is becoming a patchwork of beds in various stages of preparation for next season. More and more are becoming black as we cover them with weed control fabric. Any beds left uncovered would quickly be reinfested with weeds.

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Clearing up

Nights are beginning to draw in, which is a sign that our allotment season is winding down. There are still some crops to harvest. Some such as parsnips, cabbages and leeks will stay in the ground until needed and others will be brought home to store.

Planting will be put on hold and our attentions have turned to tidying areas of the plot that have become overgrown and unkempt whilst our time was dominated by harvesting.

Last week, Martyn intended to strim areas where the grass paths had become overgrown but his strimmer broke so that didn't get done.

We spent time clearing the bed that had housed the Crown Prince squashes. It's quite a large bed that suffers from bindweed infestation. I've dug out as much as I could but no doubt some tiny roots will have been missed which will grow and quickly reinfest the bed.

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A belated summer spell

Summer put in a somewhat belated appearance last week. Trying to make up for lost time the thermometers soared.

The result of this sudden onslaught was that we spent very little time at the allotment and confined our visits later in the week to the mornings.

We decided to bring the onions home. They had been drying out on the allotment and we didn't want them to get wet if we had a downpour. I've started to tidy them up ready to store over winter.

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August in picture

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It's all about onions

Onions seem to be featuring heavily at the moment. We have them at every stage in their life cycle.

At home, sheltering in a cold frame are what are left of the onions planted last autumn.

Drying off at the allotment are the spring planted onions. It has been sunny and warm for a couple of days which is supposed to continue into this week. If the forecast is correct, it would mean that the onions could probably be tidied up and brought home at the end of the week.

Then, last week we planted more onions and garlic which will overwinter and provide a harvest once the onions that will have been stored are either used up or begin to shoot. 

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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett