I’ve just received an email from Experts Exchange, it reads
Welcome to the 5 Million Point Club.
You’ve done it: you’ve earned enough points to become one of the founding members of our Five-Million Point Club. You’re among an elite group of experts who will have a membership to Experts Exchange for life.
Thank you for your generous contributions! Here’s to many more productive, exciting years solving technology problems together.
and I’ve got a new badge to display….
what more can I say here it is:-
My joints are aching, I spent a long day on the allotment preparing trenches for my asparagus beds yesterday. I’ve planted four beds of asparagus with the following asparagus varities – Backlim, Gijnlim and Purple Passion.
In the past few weeks, I’ve also added another two rows of strawberries, to add to the existing two rows of Elsanta, I’ve added Amelia and Marshmarvel. Amelia is a late cropping variety from June to September, Marshmarvel is an early cropping variety from May to September, peaks in June, with possible second crop later in the season. Elsanta is a mid cropping variety from June to July. So better ask my Mum, how to make “Jam’n’ Jerusalem”! because I could have a few starberries next year!
I’ve also added a few rows of sweetcorn, planted jerusalem artichokes and horseradish, completed moving the goji berry and raspberry bushes, I think the redcurrent, blackcurrant and whitecurrent, gooseberry bushes have not taken – possibly too dry.
My water butts have arrived, I’ve finished preparing the rest of the allotment to add other vegetables this week. The allotment has been bone dry, hence the need for water butts onsite to store water, we did have a wet day last week, which has helped me with not watering every day, since the rain.
Our old victoria plum tree has finally crashed to the ground, and killed my greenhouse!
It’s of no surprise, the crop of plums has been failing over the last six years, it’s estimated to be 200-250 years old! It was left over from the orchard before the house was built in the 1860s!
but left in its shadow are two smaller trees, that may fruit.
I do not have a chainsaw, and the trunk is too large for me to cut by electric saw or bow saw, so I’ve asked my neighbour to pop round with this chainsaw, to cut up into logs. (I don’t have a chainsaw yet!)
Angus and Tilly, have just had their fifth birthday, so to keep Angus dry when he is out in the rain, armed with electric power tools, some wood from the woodshed and some screws made him a house or kennel, so he can stay out all day without getting wet.
Lindsey says it’s an eyesore, and she’s going to paint some flowers on it!
here are some more pictures of Angus using it…
Yes, thats right folks, this is Andysworld! – Andy’s 1000th Blog post. So a Big Congratulations to Me, and a Big Thank You to ALL the Readers, where ever you maybe on the internet.
Lets hope for another 1000 blog posts, and to celebrate, a cream cake with 10 candles, I could not fit 1000 candles on it, so ten will have to do.
it was very nice as well! – Andy
I purchased 30 bare root Elsanta strawberry plants from Unwins, many weeks ago, (just under a tenner!) and I’ve been waiting for the allotment to dry out, to plant them out, but I could not wait any longer, so I hope they enjoy boggy waterlogged ground!
To mitigate the risk of failure, I’ve planted 10 plants in an old shipping crate, used to deliver a very heavy UPS, and 20 plants at the allotment.
So today, I planted them out, it was like digging wholes in the sand at the beach, when they tide has just gone out!
rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, it’s still damn raining, and the allotment is disappearing under more water, I’ve planted my comfrey, rhubarb and horse raddish. But the ground is far too wet, to plant my potatoes, onions, garlic and shallots, they will just rot in the ground.
My strawberry plants and asparagus corns have arrived, I’m not sure when I’ll get these planted now as the allotment is too wet, and looking at the weather forecasts, rain until Saturday!
here are some more photographs of the allotment developing…
No email as yet, but I’ve just heard via twitter, my name appears on the vExpert 2012 title holders have been announced in this document published today
Announcing vExpert 2012 title holders
the weather has been terrible, and we’ve been plagued with heavy showers, I was waiting for the ground to settle, now I’ll be waiting for it to dry out…or maybe a rice paddy or water cress?
looks like planting will have to wait, the allotments, are rather wet……
I have planted something, I’ve moved some Comfrey “Bocking 14”, up to the allotment plot, but must move my rhubarb and raspberry canes up shortly, if the ground is not to wet.
My Allotment is at http://gravelpitallotments.org.uk/
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