Mastodawn

I haven’t shared as many homegrown bouquet shots this year but I always have at least two vases full at any one time.

This may be my last sunflower posy of the year, the plants will still have lots of flowers but the stems will be shorter. Paired with statice - I grew a 4m row of mixed tall statice and it’s been easy and truly gorgeous. No watering or feeding and no pests.

Aster time has started so I’ll be moving on to them!

#allotment #growyourown #bloomscrolling

Richard Rollinson 20h ago

Farewell Okra, we barely knew thee. I never realized until this year that Okra was sensitive to fusarium wilt, but there it is. Won't be growing that near here anytime soon. Anyway, it's all cleaned out now and on it's way to an incinerator. Good thing this spot is at the far bottom of my garden plot so I can avoid it without too much difficulty. 😬
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening

Richard Rollinson 20h ago

The Cleome (Cleome houtteana) or Spider Flower seems to be quite happy between the compost piles and the rhubarb bed on this fine morning. Some of those flower stalks are taller than me. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#BloomScrolling
@gardening

Dave 1d ago

The last batch of seedlings went in today. Now praying (or dancing) for rain. 🙏
#gardening #allotmentlife #allotment #growyourown #nodig #nodiggardening #potager

PortabelloBelle🚚🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

Being aware of reader fatigue, I decided to only post about our #allotment on a quarterly basis, so here is the first of the regular blog posts about it (I know this one is only 2 months in,) but there's a lot to show, and the next one is scheduled for December.
It'll only take 5 minutes to read, I hope you enjoy it.

https://portabellobelle.com/2025/08/31/the-allotment-august-2025/

The Allotment, August 2025

The Beginning. A lot of effort has been put in over the last 2 months. Lots of progress The first couple of weeks were spent just getting to a point where we could start thinking of the plot as an …

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Lauren 1d ago

Some of the corn defences this year. Not as hardcore as the big metal festival style fencing people have used in previous years. All to stop the badgers eating every single cob come harvest time. More often than not it’s a futile endeavour. #allotment

Yvan 1d ago

It is "take stock of the jar collection" kinda time of year. Preparing for the #allotment #GYO preserving season. So far we have our first 4.2kg of passata packaged, some jars of pickled jalapenos, and gherkins fermenting in a cupboard.

I need to order some lids for a few things.

I'd like some more of the Weck jars in different sizes too, but they're a bit spendy.

Preparing some things to see if we can get some good use of this afternoon's Octopus hour of free excess power thingy. (A first for us, we only just signed up.)

So that's an intensive wash on the jars, a cotton wash in the washer, and all going well I could have both plum jam and passata on the stove. We shall see 😅 (Then we shall trip a breaker probably, lol.)