Posted by Martyn Norris on Sunday, April 3, 2011,
In :
Allotment
People get very
obsessive
about compost and the making
there of, I am not one of them. However that does not mean that I
don't do it, I just don't take it that seriously. You can spend a lot
of money on some rather over the top compost bins, 
the
Onyx
Compost Tumbler
for instance, reduced from $655 to $327 which is still a lot in
proper money or the Aerobin
Composter
for £259.99, 
Doesn't
she look happy. I got mine from the council.
I would imagine that your council probably runs a similar sch... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Wednesday, January 19, 2011,
I come before you today with some good news. Yesterday I
wrote about my one visit to the allotment so far this year and the destruction that
the weather had caused. Well, that exciting adventure out was about 10 days ago
and writing about it got me excited about growing stuff again so, with the sun
shining and an afternoon off, I wandered on down there again.
Is spring in the air? If you judge these things by the
actio... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Tuesday, January 18, 2011,
It’s that time of year again. The time of year that sees an
envelope flop through the letter box from the council pointing out that it is
time to pay the rent on the plot. It’s a gone up this year as well, a rather
extortionate £15.25. God lord, that’s for a full year mind you.
There is a line in the letter that amuses me. It says, in
bold, “Reminders will not be sent out
this year so therefore if we do not rec... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Saturday, June 26, 2010,
I’m making a sad face because I have had a crop failure, one
that I usually do pretty well at as well which makes it doubly annoying.
Garlic is usually so
easy to grow, last years were great for instance, but this year nothing has
happened. I don’t know what it is, whether it was the very cold winter or the cloves
that I planted which were saved for last year, but something went wrong leaving
me with no crop, thank goodness ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Monday, March 8, 2010,
The sun has remained visible so I have continued to get
things into the ground. I’ve been removing stones from the soil and adding my
own compost. It all looks lovely. The problem is you have nothing to show for
all of your work except for some lovely bare soil.
Here for instance are my carrots,
And here are my parsnips,
And today I put my onions.
Yes that is just 3 pictures of soil but it is lovely soil.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Friday, October 23, 2009,
Hello my allotment blog reading friends. Sorry I haven't written much lately but not that much is going on. Nothing is growing very much and what is there I have already talked about.
I did plant my Garlic for next year in, what is now, my garlic bed. I would show you a picture but who wants to see a picture of several square feet of bare earth. About 80 little gloves are sitting just below the surface ready to spring forth with lovely, thick green shoots that are really garlicky when you... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Tuesday, October 6, 2009,
It’s raining, it’s pouring
and I don’t have to water, which is nice.
I ... Continue reading ...
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I have an allotment and on it I try and grow plants that we can eat.
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