Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Growing Your Own Veg

It’s a case of trail and error when you first get an allotment. Growing from seed can sometimes fail mainly due to the seeds being good or bad. They tend to go out of date and then they don’t germinate. The other problem is whether they grow small to start with. For example cauliflower grows small and needs to be re potted a couple of times. I made the mistake of re planting into the ground to early. Also when planting out soak the soil before planting plants out it helps.
I also needed to cover small plants with netting and a tube to protect young shoots.

Covering young veg shoots is essential as you can loose a lot of small shoots.

Thursday, 14 May 2020

Allotment update


Plenty of things on on the Allotment. Potatoes and onions plus garlic planted out a couple of months ago. Unfortunately this week we had frost and all my potatoes gave currently perished. However apparently they my grow back. Not the case for the broccoli thatI planted as small seedling there gone. Rainbow chars and cauliflower seedlings still living, however quite small. Time will tell.Its a case of trial and error as I have only had the allotment 12 months and still learning. Success has occurred for my Jerusalem potatoes that I planted last year which I didn’t pick last year so have double the amount this year. Onions are also growing good. Due to corona virus I grew my broad beans peas and runner beans at home in pots and long planters. 


New mini bed frames for raspberries, wood given too me for fire wood, seemed to good to burn.Will hopefully build more.Also considering a couple of tunnels to help with frost and birds.

Friday, 24 April 2020

Micro plastics found in Antarctica Ice

                  Antarctica Plastic






Scientists have found micro plastic in sea ice in Antarctica, showing a disturbing trend towards plastic pollution everywhere on earth. It has been 50 years since plastic was produced industrially supposedly better than glass, when it reached beaches people believed it to be saver than glass as it didn’t cut people’s feet. At the time it was considered save as the majority of plastic produced was assumed to be land filled. Due to it taking centuries to decompose we have a disaster ensuing which needs to be dealt with. Making bio degradable plastics is one why to fix this problem, making it edible for wildlife is also beneficial.
The following link explains what has been found in Antarctica ice.

Sunday, 19 April 2020

Allotment news


The time is right to start to grow your own veg, having an allotment can make this easier, however growing in home made garden boxes can be just as efficient.


Firstly growing from seed and putting them in little seedling pots and then planting out when they are big enough.

Making paper seedling pots can help prevent climate change, waste can reduce natural landscapes and can in hand effect our environment. A lack of natural resources can effect the planets viable sustainability.


Seedlings of Rainbow chard

Cauliflower seedlings these are needing to be re potted into bigger pots.

Beds have been prepared for seeds and will hopefully become seedlings

Trimming the grass using a trimmer makes live easier and also prevents weeds and green fly. The pond has new frogs in which help prevent insects damaging crops.
Ponds within an Allotment helps prevent insect damage and also helps with pollination, visiting bees can drink from the pond and helps with wildlife.





Monday, 13 April 2020

Repairing Oceans globally

Scientists have confirmed that our oceans can be restored in the future if we change our behaviour.

Click on the link for full article Our Oceans Future

Saturday, 21 March 2020

Depleting biodiversity and global viruses

In these challenging times its important to find out why we are having a global pandemic, our natural world is depleting and humans and wildlife are becoming entwined in desperate environments.
I have found a number of articles relating to serious viruses jumping from animals to humans.

The Backstory of Covid 19

Biodiversity loses the real costs


I look at how wet markets run in China, the government has since banned these markets. The problem off cause is due to poverty people have been taking wild animals from the natural world and keeping them in poor conditions creating the new virus covid-19.

“We invade tropical forests and other wild landscapes, which harbour so many species of animals and plants – and within those creatures, so many unknown viruses,” David Quammen, author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Pandemic, recently wrote in the New York Times. “We cut the trees; we kill the animals or cage them and send them to markets. We disrupt ecosystems, and we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts. When that happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it.”

The reasons for why wet markets are creating new viruses can be explained in the short documentary below.

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