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Nowt special, growing as much as I possibly can on a small allotment. Chairman of the local allotment association, coordinator of a mobile food pantry.
North West, England
Joined December 2019
Rain by day, sun by tea-time 🌧️☀️ Sowed lettuce & cabbage indoors, pricked out like a pro. Evening at the allotment = top weeding weather! Courgettes planted, polytunnel reinforced, shallots freed 🇬🇧🌱 Read the full dispatch: By the Chairman’s Spade https://t.co/VQLOQdLU7D
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There you have it — your garden briefing for June’s first week! 💪 Let’s dig, grow, and defend our plots like it’s 1942. Drop your planting plans below! #DigForVictory #VictoryGarden #JuneGardenTasks
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6️⃣ Sow, Plant & Hoe! 🧺 Hoe weeds 🌱 Plant marrows 🥬 Sow French beans & runners 🧄 Feed crops — onions especially! 🍇 Pick gooseberries, but leave some to ripen for desserts 😉 #AllotmentTasks
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5️⃣ Sweetcorn & Strawberries 🌽🍓 ✅ Plant sweetcorn out now ✅ Guard strawberries from birds & slugs — net them if needed! Let’s keep those fruits safe. #GrowYourOwnFood
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4️⃣ Enemy Spotted: Garden Pests! 🐛 🔺 Check broad beans for aphis 🔺 Keep an eye out for the turnip-flea beetle Stay vigilant — protect your crops! #GardenDefence #WW2Wisdom
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3️⃣ Watch Your Onions! 🧅 Are your onions trying to flower? Snap off any seed heads as soon as they appear — this keeps the bulbs from going to waste. #GardeningTips
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2️⃣ Get Those Tomatoes Out! 🍅 If you're growing outdoor tomatoes, it's time to move them into the sunshine! Let them soak up that June warmth. #Homegrown #AllotmentLife
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Tweet 2: 1️⃣ Train Your Cucumbers Guide your cucumber vines to climb strong and straight. 🔍 Watch out for red spider mites — they love hiding under leaves! #VictoryGarden
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🌿 Dig for Victory – June Week 1 Orders! Straight from My Middleton’s “Dig On For Victory” — here are 6 vital tasks for your wartime-inspired garden this week. 🧵👇 #DigForVictory #WW2Gardening #GrowYourOwn
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Weeding has commenced with haste. It's been a very wet winter at times and I've still a bit of ground preparation to do. Removing bindweed roots has been an annual winter past time this past decade or so but still more invade each summer. #allotment #GrowYourOwn
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After the recent storms I finally got around to repairing the roof. It might be in the New Year when I get around to sorting out inside and getting rid of water damaged stuff.
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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary I seem to recall I had more time on my hands, literally. I had just broken my right hand in a car accident a few days before Christmas and so had my first Christmas and New Year break off work in decades.
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Finished sorting out the allotment association members' seed orders on Boxing Day and started to distribute them today whilst sorting out my plot.
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Harvested the last of my winter kale yesterday before replacing the dilapidated fence between mine and Paddy's plot with rabbit netting.
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