Thursday 20 November 2014

Farm Shop Tractor

Allotment Update

It's been a while since my last post but i've been busy with work and my little family have been ill. 

My dad and I have been working hard on the allotment clearing the bottom end from all the rubbish and its nearly all dug over.
This weekend we are hoping to complete all the digging and even move on to making some raised beds.

Our plan after the raised bed is to demolish the old green house and shed and construct our own. 
we've been busy researching how to make a shed, with an aim to create a place we can use all year round. 

Obviously out allotment has not made much produce this year since we only took it on late in the growing season, so were still buying a lot of fruit and veg form local stores and our local farm shop.

Farm Shop Tractor

The photos below are of me and the boys at our local farm shop. My youngest son love Tractors and even has his own name for them 'weewohs' he was filled with joy when he saw this red tractor and it took us ages to drag him away. We drove off to him sobbing 'bye bye weewoh' 




This last photo was taken two weekends ago. Im still in the process of filming episode 2 for my allotment youtube channel and will keep this blog updated as to when it is complete. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and I hope you get chance to visit my youtube channel.

Happy gardening

Claire 

Saturday 8 November 2014

Hand Made Seed Organiser. 



Were planning on building a new shed over the next few months. 

Since taking on the plot around 5 months ago we have acquired  lots of seeds. From seed swapping online groups, friends weve made at the allotment and seeds that I've bought as a treat for myself.

I  visualise the shed were going to make and painting it a lovely vintage green shade. Unable to make a start on the shed building myself I've begun to plan and make items id like to place in the shed. 

The images above show the fabric seed organiser I've sewn myself. Having seen lots of tins and wooden boxes to store seeds in I wanted something I could hang and access easily.  

The main fabric i used for the seed organiser was an old vintage curtain my mother had been using to line her car boot with. It had a few rips and tears but I worked around these. I cut some of the shapes from the edge of the curtain and hand stitched the month labels on. The brown fabric for the pockets is from a shower curtain that we've never used. 

I also added four extra pockets at the bottom of the organiser so I could store plant labels, pens and other bits and pieces.

I have some scraps of fabric left over so I plan to make some cushion covers to match.

Ive also asked my mum to hunt down the other curtain as im sure I can put it to use. 

Claire 



Purple Sweet Pea Episode 1



Hello my names Claire and I hope to use this blog to record my families progress of allotment plot 206a. I've also created a you tube channel where I intend to post video updates of the allotment as it progresses. You can find the channel by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh1_4KhQRVBfDXF3SHBwGLA 

Below are a few photographs of the allotment.


The top photograph is show my eldest son Joseph and My Dad digging up weeds. We've had the plot for around 5 months and have had some produce including Beetroot Potatoes and Leeks.
Thanks for reading my first post.

Claire