Sunday 28 November 2010

Frozen Vegetables!

Spent today on a chilly allotment as part of a tree felling co-operative between us (plot 1) and Bronwen & Gwill on plot 7. The council had been around at the beginning of the year and marked, with an attractive yellow dot, the trees that they were willing to loose in order for plot holders to gain some much needed light so the felling began. Between us 3 trees sadly hit the dust, but as with all allotments the wood and branches have been allocated for use either on wood burning fires (Dina, plot 3), as fencing, gate posts and all manner of weird and wonderful constructions.
I'm constantly taking inspiration from my fellow plot holders and never cease to be amazed at their inventiveness and, in the case of the recent scarecrow competition, their craziness! I now have lots of ideas that I want to put in place but most of them will have to wait until the weather eases as the clay soil is totally impregnable at the moment.
We did intend to start digging the path - we've manfully drunk our way through our wine collection in an attempt to produce enough bottles to edge the path and hold the membrane down, but as you can see from the photos the frost stayed with us all day making it impossible to dig as B found out when she tried to wedge a fork into the ground. Now that everything's died back there's a real melancholic, autumnal feel to the place - I love it! You can just see our rather sad rasberry bushes and the willow supports for our broad beans (bent double and frozen stiff in the bed closest to the rasberries), which I hope will survive the winter - eek.
B will hopefully be extending her willow fence along the whole length of ours and the adjoining plot so that we can finally get rid of those horrid sheets of rusty corrugated iron.
Here's to Spring!
LxXx

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