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Plot 83: March 2010

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Honest Toil is Us. Monday, 29 March 2010. With some possibly relevant content for you, as we discussed last time we were digging. Suggest titles you're interested in, and we'll see what we have on the shelves. All anthropology considered. Also, the page for our Oxford Arts Week. Exhibition, if you think you might be around Oxon at that time of year, it would be lovely to see you. Posted by Robin Wilson. Links to this post. Sunday, 28 March 2010. Robin has finally got round to working out Blogging,.

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Plot 83: April 2010

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Honest Toil is Us. Saturday, 3 April 2010. Allotment First Visit: 7th February 2010. With Hannah and Rosie, this is the first visit to the allotment for 2010, which sets the staring point for this baseline study of what we do, when in the allotment. Our starting point is this: the allotment is basically divided into quarters, left and right of the path, and in the shade of the tree and out of it. Shady Left - path - Shady Right. Unshaded Left - path - Unshaded Right. Posted by Robin Wilson.

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Plot 83: February 2011

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Honest Toil is Us. Monday, 28 February 2011. This is how we left the allotment on Sunday night. The two big beds are weed-free, onions are planted, broad beans are planted, daffodils are in the ground and the shed has a new tar-felt roof. VIDEO DIARY CLICK HERE. Posted by Robin Wilson. Links to this post. February 2011, Onion Sets. Posted by Robin Wilson. Links to this post. Nothing was done to this bed on the first visit. Posted by Robin Wilson. Links to this post. Allotment First Visit February 2011.

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Plot 83: July 2010

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Honest Toil is Us. Wednesday, 14 July 2010. Honey Flow, July 2010. Thanks to Robert and Clare Knight of Middle Barton for the loan of their most excellent antediluvian honey extractor, which is still going strong. Posted by Robin Wilson. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). PLOT 83 - Hannah Dana Rosie and Robin. Allotmenteering information depository.  Plot 83 being the home of best practice digging in the north of England: home of raspberries galore and giant leek theft. Banbury Book Club Blog.

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Plot 83: August 2010

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Honest Toil is Us. Tuesday, 24 August 2010. August 24th (2010): Bees, Plums, Apples, Pears. August 24th 2010: Hightown Road, Banbury. So Today. we opened all of the hives up at around 18.00. The day is windy, and alternating between heavy thundery rain and bright hot sunshine. The bees seemed quiet and not stingy at all. We did use a fair amount of smoke on them. No super. This colony is our smallest. Another 2010 queen who arrived in a queen cage, which we placed with three frames from HIVE 1. The plums...

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Plot 83: Elderberry Wine IV: Racking the Wine

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Honest Toil is Us. Sunday, 12 December 2010. Elderberry Wine IV: Racking the Wine. The fourth instalment of the elderberry wine. Its December 12th, and rather later than planned (it must be said), we racked off the elderberry from one PVA barrel to another identical one. In line with tips from my gardening diary, we have also added 14 crushed campden tablets, which should stop any further fermentation, and help to clear the wine, which at this stage is still cloudy (as expected). Posted by Robin Wilson.

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Plot 83: February Tasks

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Honest Toil is Us. Monday, 28 February 2011. Allotment First Visit February 2011. As usual with a first trip of the year to the allotment, it appears rough, overgrown and unproductive, and yet the weeds have been killed back by the snows and frost, so it is more of a blank canvas. At the same time as re-roofing the shed, we also cut out a few of the tall branches and trunks of blackthorn from the hedge, which are getting a bit tall and thick, and hard to get access to later on in the year.

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Plot 83: Rhubarb Bed

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Honest Toil is Us. Monday, 28 February 2011. The Rhubarb bed in February 2011. It needs weeding, but this doesn't matter all that much. There are about twenty large crowns of rhubarb in this bed, which have sat undisturbed all winter. No compost or manure has yet been added. The tiny new growth is just peeking through the soil at this point, and this year we aren't forcing the growth at all. Nothing was done to this bed on the first visit. Posted by Robin Wilson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Plot 83: December 2010

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Honest Toil is Us. Sunday, 12 December 2010. Cidermaking 2010 October 17th. Next we squeezed the pulp into a jug until no more juice could come out of it, and poured the juice into a pressurised 40 litre plastic beer barrel (see below). We repeated this until the barrel was full, then screwed the cap down tight. No sugar, no yeast, no ham, no rats. It took a surprising number of apples, but a relatively short period of time to accomplish. Cider in its pressurised barrel, ready to drink by December. Add a...