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Saturday, June 11, 2005
Allotment Update
One frog, about to be evicted
Irony has to be driving around for an hour and a bit visiting four shops whilst trying to find a scythe and/ or sickle to clear the grass from the allotment, giving up, tackling the grass by hand and finding the remnants of a sickle in the burnt rubbish that was left by a previous tenant. (True irony would have been buying a scythe and then finding one, but no-one seems to stock scythes any more, it's all high tech tools and strimmers. This lack of a simple tool made me ponder when I became a Luddite.)
As the grass was hacked down it kept revealing "treasures". Mostly mementoes of the "throw it all on the fire and let God sort it out" mentality of the previous tenant, but also a large frog that was very surprised to have its roof removed. We transplanted it to the next allotment over, where it could do slug-killing duties and be safe from our planned fire.
We're hoping to get the meadow cut down by the end of the weekend and burn the big pile of wooden rubbish some time soon as well. Then we've got to start turning the earth and planting stuff. The hope is to grow something this year, but the intended three year crop rotation isn't going to start until next year.
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One frog, about to be evicted
Irony has to be driving around for an hour and a bit visiting four shops whilst trying to find a scythe and/ or sickle to clear the grass from the allotment, giving up, tackling the grass by hand and finding the remnants of a sickle in the burnt rubbish that was left by a previous tenant. (True irony would have been buying a scythe and then finding one, but no-one seems to stock scythes any more, it's all high tech tools and strimmers. This lack of a simple tool made me ponder when I became a Luddite.)
As the grass was hacked down it kept revealing "treasures". Mostly mementoes of the "throw it all on the fire and let God sort it out" mentality of the previous tenant, but also a large frog that was very surprised to have its roof removed. We transplanted it to the next allotment over, where it could do slug-killing duties and be safe from our planned fire.
We're hoping to get the meadow cut down by the end of the weekend and burn the big pile of wooden rubbish some time soon as well. Then we've got to start turning the earth and planting stuff. The hope is to grow something this year, but the intended three year crop rotation isn't going to start until next year.
Technorati tag: Gardening, Allotment, Frog
posted by Ian at 7:12 PM link
