Anyone with an allotment?

Honest it defo is!

It has been slow & steady, but was good to compare the two pics and see the difference.

Ace.

Need to keep the grass under control... “best” strimmer

Either of these would be fun / perilous!

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Need to keep the grass under control... “best” strimmer, must be cordless, ideally electric so I can charge from renewable source

I've got this one which easily does the job those horrible noisy , smelly petrol things do ...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greenworks-Tools-G40LT-String-Trimmer/dp/B06WW7DPQ3

2 batteries is handy away from home.

Got some long shears that do it, but the wife wouldn’t use those / it’s hell on the back!

Tidy.

I’ll speak to hq!

I know! I can’t wait. I love asparagus. I spent the after with my wife at out plot today. She has been weeding and hella job she does too. I dug a path and then use the soil from the path to pile up a permanent raised bed for said asparagus.

I was on a seed companies website and they advise adding salt to the soil. Apparently they are a marshy plant🤷🏼‍♂️

I quit using shears a few years back.

Fwiw We have a Bosch cordless strimmer a bit like this one as it shares batteries with our drill and hedge trimmer. It is a bit blade hungry though.

Cleared about 1/3 of our new (extra) half plot, pulled about 3kg of bind weed out of the nearest half in the image today

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Expect that job to never end. I’ve pulled about the same out of our veg plot in the last fortnight and still finding it.

We already have the plot behind, I'd forgotten the joys of digging it out, on the back it's mostly under control but yeh a constant battle now it's warming up!

Never heard of salt on Asparagus beds before probably because its a bad idea - used to be prescribed for killing weeds. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/asparagus/salt-on-asparagus-weeds.htm

Were you looking at a seed companies website from 1930 ? :)

I made a bit of booboo. I have no idea how I thought salt would help.

I went back and watched the video again. No mention of salt.

We did another couple of hours today. My wife was weeding and I was putting gravel into our new asparagus bed for additional drainage due to heavy clay soil.

No added salt

Now I’ve run out of gravel I’m not going to buy it just for drainage. I’m considering hammering a load rubber into smaller pieces. Would anyone advise against this?

^ not a clue sorry.

I learned today that neighbouring Garlic inhibits Asparagus growth, which is a shame as my Garlic is by the Asparagus. Got another 4 spikes though.

In other news I started building the frame to net my fruit area, and discovered the Bindweed Hellmouth. #pagingbuffy

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Some progress, slow but steady, would have liked to stay the whole day but always other things I need (want) to do...

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Love that fruit frame, such a simple but effective design.
Can't get enough pallets, any tips on how you've acquired so many?

Also the blue tubing. Everyone seems to use it, am I missing something vital knowledge? Where does everyone get it? Should probably ask at my allotment shop, they might stock it.

Any tips for soil testing? Feel like I should get a bit more serious about soil health this year. Pretty sure ours is shit.

Got purple sprouting broccoli and dwarf beans today in to beds today. Plot finally starting to look a bit closer to what we want to happen. Weeds going crazy again already though!

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Keep your eyes peeled. They’re everywhere and nowhere.

I need to find some more to build a new compost bin

Visit BnQ today, only corded strimmers. I even had the wife’s credit card!!

I am able to get them through work, from delivery’s etc. But I have found a good source via Facebook marketplace, people just want rid, if I had a van I could Have picked up tonnes - don’t pay for them!!

Any small housing developments near you? Lots of stuff delivered on pallets to them, perhaps you could let them know you want some otherwise they only have to pay to dispose of them.

Blue tubing is MDPE water pipe, comes in 2omm, 25mm, 32mm and evening bigger. I use mine with straight backs.

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Ta, it's working out ok so far, just cobbling it together as time goes by.

pallets

I'm lucky we get lots at work that'd go to the tip if me or another guy didn't take them to use again.