Hobbit Allotment!

[snohare]

Who the flip would want to pinch garlic

The Sicilian Mafiosi ? I hear they chew raw garlic...

My garlic are tiny. Their neighbours the shallots are only just beginning to split into bulbs. I despair of either of them coming to anything. Allium envy !

Are you able to ride a bike?

Oh yes, I'm an ex-cycling addict. Although I just sold my mountain bike, I still have a really good roadster/tourer, panniers, the lot - everything but the oomph to go the distance ! (It's an hour's drive into town.) Someday...

[horticultural_hobbit]

Mama H's birdy today. So it's cauli bhajis for birdy tea.

Nearly had an episode. Thought some one had filched the garlic that I harvested yesterday and left to dry. Came home and it is sat on the crazy paving in the back garden. Mother moved it thinking it would be pinched. Who the flip would want to pinch garlic.

[Two_Sheds]

Are you able to ride a bike?

[snohare]

Write it on the spuds' labels? (if you remember to write labels

An excellent idea! If only I would remember to buy and then bring labels...and the appropriate information for when writing...
Funny thing is, I forget that I even have these problems with my memory until I am reminded !
My allotment plot costs me exactly nothing in rent, as it is unofficial. But if I stop gettting free lifts into Aberdeen because my commuter friends move house, then I expect I will have to pay �10 bus fare for every trip. Hmmm....I can see me polishing my hitching thumb yet...

[Two_Sheds]

I can never remember which varieties need to be left outside for the skin to thicken [or] which ones are best eaten early

Write it on the spuds' labels? (if you remember to write labels )

[horticultural_hobbit]

I think she has been, hazel. Jungle drums do that!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Then I think that (in this instance) Mama H is misinformed - I think that we're both safe at �50 ish.

I can't complain about a quid a week (even if in 2006 (gosh - 7 yrs ago!) it is was only �18pa, if I remember correctly).

[horticultural_hobbit]

I hope so! Mines a half plot too, so is still at �50. Most expensive in the country, I think for a half plot.

[Hazel at the Hill]

And then, my mother reliably or no informs me that my plot rent is going up to �75! I will need to confirm that at some point.

Rents in B'ham have zoomed up over the past 3 or 4 years, HH - standard plots now at �75pa, due 1st Oct each year (my half plot is �50); but according to our site Treasurer, this is the last big price hike the B'ham are imposing.

Are you sure you have enough garlic there?

[horticultural_hobbit]

Ta Dah!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Was disappointed with so few new potatoes. They were lovely, and have been used. But they were variable sizes. From pea, to well, potato sized.

Firmly believe, that weather has played a factor. Orla and kestral were both tiny. Daresay it's early for the kestral anyway.

My mother has been bouncing with the appearance of the caulis. We counted 3. But will wait till they grow a little further. She was then altogether very excited with the swedes and turnips. All ear marked, as ever for Dad's dinner

Have puddles of kale and Nero di Toscana to harvest. A few baby squashes. Pollination of which. Is entirely per^erted. But I do have a baby striato di Napoli for the moment.

With the last three weeks, I've been doing school work, and it's had rained too with some stuff called heat. Cue weeds and grass all over. If its not dealt with, I suspect it could end up like last years field of weeds.

And then, my mother reliably or no informs me that my plot rent is going up to �75! I will need to confirm that at some point.

[snohare]

Far far ahead of me ! Well done that woman...

[horticultural_hobbit]

Update

[snohare]

Orlas...Kestrels...sorry Hobbit, I know I should know, they and Ospreys are my usual tatties so I must have lifted them...but how, heaven only knows ! (The brain fog here is bad, can you tell.)
I can never remember which varieties need to be left outside for the skin to thicken before storage, and I can never remember which ones are best eaten early rather than left in store; so usually I don't do either. I just lift them as I need them, and end up finding tatties in the ground for weeks and months to come. (The wee ones left behind seem to be very keen to bulk up if left. I call it the Aberdonian's Christmas Crop. )
Still planting my maincrop tatties...!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Dedicated to granny flo