#allotment

TauC @TauC@infosec.exchange · Aug 07, 2026

A couple of hours at the allotment, watered stuff, plucked some weeds, dug the drain channel and while at it, spotted a frog! Also a new strawberries crop seems to be growing... And the grape isn't ready, perhaps in October. Left the track camera over a couple of days, at the allotment, had some 300 shots, most of them pointless, vegetation agitated by wind, but got a few bird shots including this crow taking off. #photography #crows #allotment #pond #enviroment #grape #frog #strawberries

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My Wildlife Allotment @MyWildlifeAllotment@mastodon.online · Aug 06, 2026

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It is all looking a bit crisp and dry now after over a month without rain and heat wave after heat wave. But Echinops ritro is still standing firm with its wonderful globular blue flowers. A true survivor and definitely a plant for future gardens. #flowers #allotment #climatechange

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Richard Rollinson @richrollgardener@toot.wales · Aug 05, 2026

I found the old recipe for what my father called his "Chili Sauce" but always seemed to me to be a type of chutney or relish. The measurements for tomatoes and onions are by size not volume which seems odd but here's the image of the recipe card if anyone is interested. I think the origin goes back to our roots in Yorkshire in late Victorian times... #Onions #Gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #GYO #GrowYourOwn

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Richard Rollinson @richrollgardener@toot.wales · Aug 05, 2026

Is anyone out there really buying this crap? Let's all go get antennas for our tomatoes... This is NOT an endorsement. https://kleone-copper.com/products/pure-copper-electro-culture-antenna?campaign_id=120243510297000495&ad_id=120248714133120495 #Gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #GYO #GrowYourOwn

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Richard Rollinson @richrollgardener@toot.wales · Aug 04, 2026

We DID pick a few other things today to put out for the neighbors, but mostly worked on getting the onions out on the drying rack, which is really just a ladder and some bamboo canes on horses in the garage. This was our best onion harvest in a long time. Didn't count or weigh anything but they're mostly huge. 😀 🧅 #BeetBear #Onions #Gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #GYO #GrowYourOwn

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social · Aug 04, 2026

Oh silly me. I decided to get 600mm square slabs for the #allotment instead of 450mm. F me they are heavy. Now they are on the plot I've got to position the blighters!

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Lauren @laurenheywood@social.ds106.us · Aug 04, 2026

I was thinking last year for this year of getting into growing more dwarf or micro dwarf tomato varieties and then held off as I was gifted large fruiting indeterminate varieties to try. Regretted not going ahead with that plan as it's felt a long wait for my bigger varieties to produce (especially with the difficult weather stressing greenhouse plants). Wondered if others here in N Europe have thoughts or experience on using dwarf varieties for early(er) harvests? #allotment #growyourown

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Tau @TauCeti@kolektiva.social · Aug 04, 2026

Am... am flabbergasted.... b TWICE in less than a year... two plotters.. asked me what are blackberries for!! good grief!! one, an immigrant, was amazed when I told him they're edible and delicious, he made a disgusted face.... the other a local with the plot right next to mine, also asked what are they for. I said they're edible and delicious and grown all around you; offered one fruit from a box I'd just filled in from the nearby bushes, she made a face and refused. Goodness gracious me. I rest my case. Am not telling them am having a handful of them in goat yogurt, for breakfast, lest they run away in fright. Picked up some new potatoes over a couple of weeks; thanks to blackbirds digging for worms, they pull them up clean and tidy. nice. #allotment #food #blackbirds #potatoes #yogurt #breakfast #blackberries

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TauC @TauC@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Am... am flabbergasted.... b TWICE in less than a year... two plotters.. asked me what are blackberries for!! good grief!! one, an immigrant, was amazed when I told him they're edible and delicious, he made a disgusted face.... the other a local with the plot right next to mine, also asked what are they for. I said they're edible and delicious and grown all around you; offered one fruit from a box I'd just filled in from the nearby bushes, she made a face and refused. Goodness gracious me. I rest my case. Am not telling them am having a handful of them in goat yogurt, for breakfast, lest they run away in fright. #allotment #blackberries #food #fruits

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