July jobs
by Diane - July 9th, 2012.Filed under: allotment.
This month has already been soaking wet. We were grateful here for a sunny weekend as the bees arrived on our allotment. They seem to have settled in already and have been out foraging and returning to their new hive laden with pollen!
The allotment is looking good at the moment, we have a new person just signed up and hope to get another person signed up to a quarter plot soon as well.
I’ve started a second solarisation compost bag – this time with grass cuttings and cardboard. It’ll be interesting to see how this one competes with my wheelie bin attempt at this composting method.
My potatoes that were being eaten have had slug pellets put around. I’ve never seen such devastation on spuds from slugs! Apparently they’re particularly fond of maris piper which explains why they’ve been singled out.