http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp Wandering thoughts Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:08:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="202" caption="Blackcurrants (Image Wikimedia Commons)"][/caption] Last night was spent making up some blackcurrant sorbet as well as preparing to make blackcurrant jelly... One of the other allotment holders has a number of blackcurrant bushes on one of their plots, and they very kindly offered to let us pick some ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/07/16/blackcurrants-a-plenty/ Sunday ending up being quite a pleasant day, so we managed to get a couple of hours in on the allotment - the first time we've got more than a few mins up there for a while. All the rain over the past week has encourage healthy growth of the ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/07/15/rain-and-spuds/ On Saturday we travelled to Liverpool to see the arrival of the Clipper Round the World Race. My uncle was one of the crew members on the Hull & Humber yacht, so we thought go and see him arrive back after 10 months sailing around the world. In the overall race, ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/07/06/clipper-round-the-world/ I don't think this is something which will have affected us - we only applied 1 small bag of manure to our plot (though some sites indicate the effects can last up to 3 years, so we don't really know). I heard some mention of this a few days ago, ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/07/04/contaminated-manure/ Well, we've just got back from holiday, and a number of the courgettes have turned into rather large marrows... There's a couple of normal sized fruit, but mostly marrow sized. I've picked them off to encourage the plants to produce more, hopefully they'll grow on a bit ... Some of ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/06/30/marrows/ So I finally succumbed to applying some Glyphosphate based weedkiller to the allotment plot. I've sprayed the bottom section of the plot which we aren't using at the moment, so hopefully it will kill off the weeds - particularly I'm bothered about the spread of convolvus down there as well ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/06/09/general-ramblings/ Well, I managed to twist my ankle on Friday when leaving work, which limited the amount of allotmenting I could get up to. Did drop a couple of pallets of there though, from paper and PC deliveries at work. So mostly taking it easy on Saturday, cut the hedge at home, ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/06/02/cucumbers/ No rain yesterday! Well, at the very least it was almost pleasant by the evening, so we popped up to the allotment for a couple of hours. The courgettes seem to have recovered a bit, and look like they are might produce some more growth over the next week if the ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/05/30/sweetcorn-in/ Well, the wind and rain over the bank holiday weekend meant we only got a couple of hours digging in on Saturday. Last week we bought some leek plants from Ashwood which we spotted whilst I was buying growbags (my preferred growbag at the moment, though they are more expensive ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/05/26/wind-and-rain/ Well, this week the roofer finished replacing the roof on our house. It was actually mostly finished the week before, but there's a single story bit of roofing at the front over the bay windows and front door, and the scaffolding to access the top was resting on it i.e. ... http://www.roamingzebra.co.uk/wp/2008/05/18/slate-roofing/