LEEK NEWS Leeks look terrible. Listless, pale, a lot of papery yellowing and silver streaks on tattered flags. I think there are three reasons for this. Firstly, leek moths. These small creatures have been in amongst 13 x 15 rows of plants. I can see dieback, right in the crown of some, plus a peppering [...]
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2 October 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman LEEK NEWS
Friday, October 2nd, 200930 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SUNDAY MORNING AT THE END OF AUGUST, THREE LADS ON BIKES IN MISTY SHASTON, SOUNDS OUTSIDE THE BACK PASSAGE
Sunday, August 30th, 200930 August 2009 SUNDAY MORNING AT THE END OF AUGUST (Yesterday afternoon and) This morning the plots were full of allotment folk bending backs, hoeing, cutting, shifting piles of this and that. As a feather-soft drift of misty rain came in westerly before lunchtime, with quiet focus so we worked. Much to do, not a [...]
Read More »5 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman MANAGING POPPIES IN THE VEG
Sunday, July 5th, 20095 July 2009 MANAGING POPPIES IN THE VEG On the plot I manage the field poppies which self seed freely and try to grow in amongst my veg. Many fall victim to the hoe, of coarse, but here and there I spare them and where that happens they prosper. We all benefit in the long [...]
Read More »DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman 29 June 2009 WRITING AN INDEX FOR ‘ON THE PLOT’
Monday, June 29th, 200929 June 2009 WRITING AN INDEX FOR ‘ON THE PLOT’ The ‘proofs’ for On The Plot arrived on Friday and I got a proper look at them today. What happens is that these papers are the book laid out as it will be when colour printed and bound for sale in the shops, except they’re [...]
Read More »23 June 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman TENDING LEEKS, GARDEN MOTHS COUNT
Tuesday, June 23rd, 200923 June 2009 TENDING LEEKS Someone had a fire this afternoon. I caught it in my nostrils, between the long grass and nettles, just inside the gate. They were three-strong, putting up bean poles and chatting when I went down the central path to tend my leeks. I puddled five rows I’d dibbed in on [...]
Read More »12 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DISTRACTED BY THE WATERING
Tuesday, May 12th, 200912 May 2009 DISTRACTED BY THE WATERING It’s been a busy morning. In between dealing with emails, writing my weekly article for the Western Gazette and updating the Orchard Park Demo Garden blog, I’ve had the hose unreeled and on in the garden. Both water butts had completely run out of water. One was dry, [...]
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