April 2026
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The videos below show the status on 08th April 2026. There is an option to “open / use full screen mode” when viewing
The website cost me under £2 and I had a spare hosting plan that I used for it. It has been purchased for 1 year, so will come off-line within a few weeks of your return.
Key to gates – My good wife will send your good wife an email about hand over. In summary, if agreeable and you have time, I will meet you at allotment to walk over / review, before we go away (A few days after you return home)
I will try to replace the videos below with more videos of what may be my last visit before you return on my next trip on 16th April.
Hopefully when your back home, you should have a nice useable allotment, to simple plant in and build your walls / trenches . Reference plot 2D. Please rest assured that I will not be offended in any way if you look at the potato area I have planted and dig it all back up and replant or even replace. My total expense in this area was well under two pints (And may have even been one pint) in my local, down the road. I planted it, so that you might be able to use it perhaps for a 1st or 2nd grow, so do dig it back up if what I have done is not what you wanted.
The Invaders page (Seen in menu area) now includes x3 short videos of the checky Ant invaders!
I hope you enjoyed the few website updates and that it has left you reassured that your returning to a usable allotment ready to plant in.
15th April 2026 (Wednesday)
Next and maybe the last trip before you come back home is planned for Wednesday 15th April, where I will see if areas need hoeing again.
I will water 2D again and also 6B (Bushes – MM at home said this should have been watered today as the hottest day this year today)
Assuming all goes well and I can get down their, my primary work will be to concentrate on area 6B Compost again, to break down the compost heap further. Most of it is usable dirt, with what seems to be a few rabbit hole tunnels. However, stinging nettles are growing and sorting this out from the dirt can be a bit time consuming.
5B ants nest, should no longer be in use (See below), so I will spread this dirt out a little more. Hopefully when you back home, you should have a nice useable allotment, to simple plant in. I won’t be offended if you look at the potato area I have planted in 2D and dig them back up and replant or replace.
08th April 2026 (Wednesday)
2D – Hoed and watered. Attention was also placed on watering the areas that the carboard had been dug into the earth, to break them down further.
5B – I broke down the two large mounds of compost. Removed weeds and larger stick bits that had not broken down and placed in the 6B Compost containers.
I removed the rather large parsnip.
Note: The smaller compost heap on 5B was ant infested (See video in 5B page). The ant nest was destroyed as best I could, having been bitten many times.
6B Bushes area – Hoed. Note: The trench area had much soil in it. Upon investigation, (I assume) rabbits had tunnelled just under this area and tunnels were destroyed and trenches rebuilt.
6B Compost – Not touched. However, I spotted some rabit holes in the compost area that will need further review.
6B Asparagus – Not touched. However, I must confess, I found some old potatos and what looked like a spring onion I simply planted in an area. I may dig this up on 15th April, as they look like more of a hinderence.
Next and maybe the last trip before you come back home is planned for 15th April, where I will see if areas need hoeing again, water 2D again and concenetrate on area 6B again, to break this down further.
01st April 2026 (Wednesday)
No trip made
25th March 2026 (Wednesday)
2D Allotment 2D – Potatoes I started making a trench, but then thought, why make a trench, just to fill it back in? Ian was on the next allotment, so I asked his. He explained everyone has their own way. I borrowed Inas hole maker, made holes and dropped the potato in, ensuring the chit was faced upwards and watered them. See images in Plot 2D dated 25th March for the work carried out. I created a walkway that can be used to water. I placed twigs on each potatoe to identify its location
I also buried all cardboard that had not broken down, under the soil.
5B Allotment – Hoed and soil from ^B Compost area moved over to this area.
6B Allotment – Hoed.
6B Compost. Time was spent on the centre area (Compost) again – See 6B Compost and date 25th March 2026 for an update.
6B Asparagus. Not touched.
18th March (Wednesday)
Hoeing of each plot not required. Outstanding – 2B Plot – all the cardboard and fertiliser you had put down needs working in.
Asparagus. I cut down to around 2 inches (Above ground). Compost to be added once groth is seen. Your comment was to cut below ground. I have taken the advice on You Tube (Cut above ground) unless I hear back. If you would prefer underground, I can take the two inches I leave and cut further down on my next visit.
Rhubarb – “The rhubarb should be in its prime now. So take as much as you want. Pick the leaves before they get fully grown. The fully grown ones can be left on the plant”
I have not picked any Rhubarb at the moment, but may do if the “boss” would like some. I spoke to Angela today about how to manage it and she said all will be OK if I leave it as is and await your return. Let me know if I need to manage it in some other manor.
Reclaiming Compost Heap Area – I am continuing working on reclaiming some land and breaking down more of the compost heap where the stinging nettles were.
Old Rusted Metal Bin – I found the metal bin lid in the overspilled compost area. The metal bin has been removed. However, I have placed the lid in the shed as it was still in good standing.
11th March (Wednesday)
Area 3B – I have started on compost heap. I have removed all the compost from one bin and onto the ground opposite. Both compost heaps are now full again.
Weed barrier / membrane – There was a weed barrier that had broken down and I have removed as much of this as I can.
Compost Bin – There was also a broken-down cloth like material that has also been removed.
During my visits, I have removed all “big compost” that would take considerable time to break down and place in my brown bin. I have filled one brown bin with big stuff – including some old wood that would have taken considerable time to break down and use as compost
All stinging nettles have been removed, and I have started breaking down the unmanaged compost part