It certainly feels like midsummer here, not because of the weather which is very windy but because of the state of growth. Everything is at least waist height, or so it seems. However, some of the plants that I’d given up on have obviously benefited from the recent rain and are, particularly the tomatoes, looking to have a new lease of life after a parched start. In some other beds seeds are germinating that I sowed months ago and that I had given up on. In my shed the cucurbits seem to have all worked this year after a disaster last year and this will be my first job when I come here again, to get them out and into the ground.
It is odd knowing that some of the produce I’ve sown and nurtured will be someone else’s banquet but so long as it doesn’t go to waste this is not a bad thing. I have decided to move my shed to my new garden in Cornwall and to hand over the allotment at the end of September. I am beginning to detach from it already as I’ve had a report to write but now I’m back it has hooked me in again and I have to say I am calmer than I’ve been for some time.
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Beginning in the spring of 2007 this is a journal of my Fine Art research project exploring the transformative possibilities for me personally and in relation to others through keeping an allotment. From October 2008 the project adjusts with the relocation of my potting shed from my allotment in Derbyshire to my new garden in Cornwall.
2 comments:
How are the potatoes?
Have you read about problems with aminopyralids getting into manure? Its really scary stuff.
I think it will make me very careful about where we get it from but its really hard to be sure. My hope is that our small local farmer would not bother with spraying but you never know.
We ate our first early potatoes the other day (Orla) within an hour of digging them and picking the mint that they were cooked with. They were amazing!
I went to a meeting about an art event on Meersbrook Allotments in Sheffield on Sunday - there are 409 plots!
Try googling 'grow sheffield' and you'll find a great website with all kinds of interesting events and news like 'guerilla gardening' for example.
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