Reduce Climate Change

2020 has been the hottest year on record. The melting ice caps are reducing Artic and Antarctica landscape reducing habitats and changing the eco system. Increasing the temperature of our oceans killing coral reefs and planton removing sustainability of our oceans will lead to climate change catastrophe on an unprecedented level.

Changing life style choices and living a more sustainable live will encourage others to do the same.

Removing plastic waste is a key factor in drawing down pollution and in turn increasing the natural habitat for a greener world.  

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 They tend to go out of date and then they don’t germinate.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.

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.

PPE plastic pollution now found in our oceans

Article on PPE Pollution

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.

Antarctica plastic

 

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.

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