Random Pictures From 2007

2007 - The Half Arsed Year

The title of this thread says it all really: "the half arsed year"... Half a year in 5th gear and the other half in reverse... Stupid really after all the work we'd put in up to the middle of June, but we let the bad weather, the blight and biblical rain get the better of us. We were still getting spuds and tomatoes, carrots and onions, beetroots and courgettes but we weren't doing any real weeding and our visits up to the allotment got fewer and fewer... we never thinned out the leeks and the brassies lost the battle against the weeds we didn't get rid of... A shameful performance all told. By the time of bonfire night i was just glad it was going dark early to save our blushes; no one could really see the state of the plot... and after the wine had kicked in no one really cared. The greenhouse did double up as a good DJ booth though!

Last year i gave myself 4 out of 10... this year it's got to be 3 out of 10, it would have been lower if it wasn't for the greenhouse.



One of the plum trees snapped more or less in half with the weight of the fruit (due, i presume, to the amount of rain we had and the fact we hadn't picked any) but we'll see how the trimmed version gets on this year.




The rest of nature hadn't follwed our lead and was getting on with things, as beautifully as ever.




And we had a mutant sunflower that i loved... but getting pleasure from nature wasn't good enough to replace the feeling of satisfaction gained from reaping the rewards of hard work on the allotment.