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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · Aug 28

Celeriac and red cabbage growing at the allotment with clover as a living mulch to avoid bare soil, When I cut the clover down there are spiders and beetles moving around and the clover leaves have been nibbled by slugs, maybe they're acting as a decoy for the veg, hopefully all good signs. 🤞🌱

A celeriac plant growing amongst clover, trefoil and similar stuff, a lot of the clover leaves are notched because they’ve been nibbled by slugs.
Celeriac looking good too.

Red cabbage growing amongs clovers, trefoils etc, it’s growing well, damage to the lower leaves isn’t due to slugs but because of an earlier invasion by hordes of flea beetles that had vacated an oil seed rape field after harvest.

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 23h

It could well just be a distraction from a massive upgrade of the bunker underneath.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 1d

I so look forward to watching flocks of redwing going over in October when I'm sitting having my breakfast, occasionally they drop down into some yews behind us, so far it just hasn't happened. Seems odd, conditions can't be so wrong for migration if a lot of goldcrest are coming in.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, I think I'll give it a try next year while I continue trying to find an alternative brokali/tenderstem variety.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 2d

That's a good amount, what is the variety? I used to grow Brokali (hybrid broccoli/Chinese kale), it was very productive, but the variety I used (Atlantis) isn't available any more. I've tried two alternative varieties, but both have been a waste of time and space!

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

I've been growing long beets together like that for a few years now, but because they grow away from each other above ground they don't seem to interfere with each other and they all develop at the same rate.

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

First time growing them this year, I'll definitely be growing them again!

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

I'm pleased that I don't have to put "Sweaty Royal Nonce" in brackets when writing about my Red Duke of York first earlies now.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

I think I've forgotten about some of the tasty round varieties because I've got carried away with the success of multisowing clumps of the long ones in modules.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

I used to grow them a while ago and loiked them, I was actually hoping for some more of them this year because we got a pack with four different varieties including that one as a present, but for some reason we only got boltardy and the golden one out of it so far.

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, I'm surprised at the quality of the carrots this autumn, but I've now concluded that round beetroot grown together in clumps can pull each other out of the ground as they swell, so I'll go back to the cylindrical ones where that's never an issue.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sometimes asked to go to the allotment (or even further away), but it's me that's grumpy😂

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

A selection of vegetables from the allotment, beetroot in two colours, kohlrabi and carrots were freshly-harvested; potatoes, red onions and shallots were taken from the shed, while the self-seeded calendula in front of the shed was almost glowing in the fading light.
#AllotmentLife🌱

A selection of vegetables, kohlrabi, red and golden beetroot, red onions, shallots, caledonian rose potatoes and carrots, all lying on some wood chip.

A view of the allotment shed with a bed of self-seeded calendula in the foreground.

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

This is real Nazi stuff, they'd try and do worse if they thought they could get away with it.

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 3d

People might live and thrive in places people like Gates can afford to live, and also, he's 70 anyway.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 5d

Probably more UFO people hang out on X, the venn diagram etc.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 5d

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 5d

So Lemon Drop but hot AF?
I miss Chilli Fowler over here, we had a few exchanges about music, also didn't he make random posts about UFOs?

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 5d

As I was saying.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing enough for anti-vaxxers to reconsider their stance?

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, we use quite a bit of chilli in our cooking, so it's handy to have a pot of dried red ones and some chilli oil as well, we've got too many green ones but I'll freeze them all for use in curries anyway.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 8d

Obviously when I say just what we need, overthrowing a few governments and eating the rich would be better, but it just doesn't seem to be happening.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 8d

A bit of colour and a bit of heat from today's brief allotment visit, just what we need as it begins to get darker.
#allotmentlife 🌱

A little pot with some dahlia blooms, I know, I'm shit at flower arranging, but at least I grew them all from seed. Some chillies, Reggae F1s, red and green, all harvested because it could get frosty.

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🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 10d

I don't know about the revolution, the population is anaesthetized with cheap consumer goods and entertainment.

🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🌱🏴 Israel doesn't do ceasefires @tonyjw.bsky.social · 10d

They're doing the politics they always wanted to, reform just gave them the excuse to do it.