We’ve been planting our seeds in small seed trays at home, getting them ready for the big bad world and moving out to the allotment. Part of that means moving them outside during the day and then back in at the evenings. This ‘hardens’ em up, but also makes sure they don’t get killed in [...]
Not much happened over the winter. We put down plastic over all of the allotment which got the weeds under control. It was excellent, loads of weeds, plastic and then no weeds. No manual labor required. I didn’t get any photos of the plastic (it’s not the most exciting) but the photo below has some [...]
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Sinead was on Dublins City Channel and got in a wee plug for the allotment.
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Thanks to the magic of zip-ties and bamboo, we’ve constructed a nice light weight frame to protect the sweetcorn for a while. It’s a fairly simple design but flexible. We used: 6 pieces of 90cm bamboo 6 pieces of 120mm bamboo 4.5mm wide zip ties 2mm wide zip ties U shaped nails, also called fence [...]
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A good bit of progress in the past week. With help from Conor (Thanks!) we took delivery of more wood and built three of the 2.4m x 1.2m beds. Next step was to get three tons of soil to fill those beds. The guy drove it right up, held the bag over the bed, we [...]
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Success on the first crop! Our radishes are shooting up, so we whipped a few of them out of the soil. They don’t have a very strong flavour, but nonetheless, it’s pretty cool! We’ve also been growing some strawberries onthe patio and they are starting to ripen. Unfortunately we’ve had a few setbacks on [...]
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A bit more activity this weekend. We took the shallots which we’d germinated in a window box at home down to the allotment. They were then planted in one of the 1.2m squared beds. We also finished off the potatoe bed, put the potatoes down and put radish seeds into the other bed. One of [...]
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We got enough wood for two of the 1.2m x 1.2m beds and built them up. They are down now and we are about to take delivery of two tons of topsoil to fill them and the potato bed. The rest of the photos are on Sinead’s camera, I’ll update with those when I get [...]
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A few weeks have past, lots of planning and some activity. We went out and inspected the site, had a look at the soil and such. All is good, there are lockers, good access with the car and the dirt, or soil if you will, appears to be good shit. Here’s Sinead turning the sod [...]
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Our little adventure begins ! Sinéad signed up for an allotment from Dublin City Council a few years ago. When she got a phone call the other day saying that a plot was available we were bit surprised. We’d completely forgotten about the application. The more and more we thought about it, we got more [...]
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