Tuesday 4 June 2013

Hosting tours of our site.

Every year we invite garden clubs to come along and enjoy a guided tour and talk around our pretty allotment site as we are proud of what we have created from nothing in 3 years. Last Sat, 1st June it was the turn of the St. Cleer club and I was looking forward to their visit as when I had given a talk in their memorial hall back in deep winter their members were very interested in what I had to say and couldn't wait to come to us. In fact, two of them came to see us 2 days after, they said they couldn't wait til June.
Although surrounding the site looks like a bombsite at the moment while work building car parks and other site work, our patch looked A1 after Billy had done his magic with the ride on  the previous day. The visitors really enjoyed the tour, talk and refreshments offered after and stayed for a long time chatting in the sunshine asking questions on various subjects. I like it, as it does our association a lot of good around the county to give a good impression, word of mouth goes a long way. The photo here shows some of their club relaxing after their hour long tour. My lovely wife Ruth emerging from the shed after her tea making duties, much appreciated by all.
There is a huge high pressure over the country and it's hot as I write which is unusual to clash with the Royal Cornwall show week and our water tanks have not stood up to their sternest test so far in that the blimin' things have run dry too quickly. We are going to have to look at adding a second one each end linked to the first one. A learning curve for us, thought 540 gallons each tank would be enough for a good while but not. They are not cheap unfortunately.
A late frost unusual for this part caught a few out including me with runner beans, potatoes, dahlias scorched but not killed. They don't look very healthy but will feed the beans up on seaweed extract to perk them up. It's midsummer's day in 3 weeks, had to get the runners and dahlias out surely by June? The joys of allotmenteering! Love it.

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