Got Into a Greenhouse

[General Woundwort]

After almost two years unemployed, I started New Deal yesterday at a community association. Rather pompously I'd put on my CV "allotmenteering" (yes, I turned it into a verb), despite, whilst waiting to set up a formal allotment, being limited to the back-area of a sports club into which I've crammed some tatties and beans and various alliums.

Great, said the organizer, we have an unusued greenhouse and growing-crates with overgrown veg.

I spent a very pleasant first day tying back the peas, thinning out the brassicas (several of which I now have sitting in poly bags in my porch) and stocking the greenhouse with tomatoes and cucumbers and laying quick-growing seeds.

[rustylady]

Well done. It must be great to have a placement doing something you enjoy.

[Flummery]

Fantastic! I hope you manage to spread a bit of your knowledge around too. Every little helps (as the dog said when it widdled in the sea.) I always think of that when I see the supermarket advert!

[General Woundwort]

New Deal typically lasts 13 weeks, but I already had considered volunteering at this association (before I knew about the greenhouse), so will likely retain access over the winter.

Another productive day; dressed in suit trousers and waistcoat and shirt with cufflinks and arm-bands, and apron. As one should, by Jove! We lost an Empire, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't dress for an occasion!

Took some peas, which I'll fit into a few square feet of earth I haven't used on my own veg patch. I imagine I'll be digging-up the last of the turf to get them and the brassicas in.

Planted some onion sets which I found in my cupboard, so should have extra salad stuff in September. Them and the herbs and wattknot will be shared around, but I'm also trying to get baby beets ready for when my own main onion crop starts comes up in a few weeks.

The office abuts a bit of overgrown land... about 300^2, left over from the previous allotment site in town which was turned into residential houses. There're plans to turn it into a wildlife garden, which I would have no problems with despite my already stated opposition to the middle-classes turning allotments into their 'comfort space'.

Plus, I could gain access to contacts and fund-raising structures for the disused council allotment field elsewhere in town which I'm trying to re-start (I have the requisite six names under the Smallholding Act, and the local ward manager is eager to go ahead).

~*starts humming the tune to The Flumps*~

[Two_Sheds]

You go, GW

[General Woundwort]

300^2

Whoops, sorry, did I say three hundred metres squared? I meant three hundred metres squared.

Time to shoot myself. One must have standards.

[Rixy]

Whoops, sorry, did I say three hundred metres squared? I meant three hundred metres squared.

Time to shoot myself. One must have standards.

Or even perhaps three hundred square metres?