Weather report

We've crammedi n a cheeky little weather forecast panel on the site to help predict when we have to go do watering duties at new yorkshire. We're all away over the weekend, so fingers crossed for a downpour.

We'll probably change it for a better one in the near future. this one seems to read our wonderful posts and creates annoying ads based on them.

Contrary to an earlier post about planting grapes next spring, we decided to throw in some grapes now so that they can catch the last of the summer and hopefully be off to a good start (then wine thereafter!).

That said, we got a green grape vine and a black grape vine off ebay for about a tenner each. Ebay is GREAT for buying seeds and saplings, and even trees, especially late in the season! They arrived a few days later wrapped up like an xmas tree, which was a suprise to all in our office. But they're kind of getting used to our green fingers by now.



Adam managed to get them planted up the back wall last night, so we hope it won't be long before they take over the entire fence and start dangling us some grapes of joy!

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Yesterday we picked up a couple of onions from the patch that we had inherited. The rest of them are nearing their fateful destiny to be plucked and thrown into stews, salads and chillis.

Once we've cleared this patch out, we plan to transplant some of the seedlings, from the seedling bed - it's getting rather overgrown as we were a bit over zealous on seed sprinkling. So hopefully in a few months time we'll have a fine crop of celery, broccoli and leeks where the onions once sat happily.

In other allotment related news, everything is going well and sprouting into life. Including a huge influx of weeds that we have great difficulty distinguishing from seedlings.