Reclaiming the plot
Responding to Pumpkin Soup’s invitation to ‘fess up, here is my own embarrassing little secret: The horribly overgrown rear of my allotment.
Shamefully, this is the same area I cleared of weeds back in July. I got lazy and it went native… again. Only this time, the brambles got involved as well as the couch grass.
Result: Pure hell. Spent yesterday clearing it and am now scratched to hell by thorns.
What a misery this ‘summer’ has been.
Your bad news seems very much outdones by the good. Your weeds are rampant – but your carrots are huge. Your gerkin crop is small but you’ve been to Russia and back.
Sounds good.
Lucy Corrander
PICTURES JUST PICTURES
September 15th, 2008 at 8:39 am
That looks remarkable like my back garden!! Any nice plants I had growing there have disappeared beneath nettles, grass and God knows what else. And I don’t have any amazing carrots!
September 15th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I’m exhausted just looking at that. I spend half the year wishing I had an allotment and the other half glad that I haven’t!
September 15th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Very reassuring. The allotments near me are all absolutely pristine. I think weeds just don’t dare make an appearance or they get told off. It’s all a bit posh. Nature running wild – that’s so much more normal, don’t you think?
September 16th, 2008 at 10:36 am