Category Archive: tub

April 3rd, 2013
post by Timber-Gray | | 0

Stealing of my allotment supplies!

  As you’ve seen and heard I keep my carrots growing in bathtubs, fiberglass ones with holes and minging bottoms. Well some brain decided to steal all FOUR of the tubs I’ve been given! I swear it pisses me off to keep having things stolen from the allotment, I can’t have anything nice there because they steal things so quickly! Last year I had an early and late crop of carrots, but they sole and entire tub of my late carrots over 50 of them!! And a lot were going to my landlord’s children’s cavies,nothing big just helping them as they help us. But to steal an entire lot of carrots??? So plans are limited to what we keep there and now I have to ask my mate again for some tubs for the carrots in hopes that I can get them growing again because we love the carrots and there’s so many to pick from!

 Last year they stole our tiller, we had saved up for a cheap one but still the same they stole it! I swear I hate being there at times but know all the hard work we’ve put into it that I wouldn’t move for the life of me! We suffered through glass, brambles, theft, and foxes! But it’s our allotment and something we’ve put hard work into and something we’ll continue to do because we love it so! Even in the dirt to plant things I enjoy things there and can’t wait for the summer to be crawling again. I don’t get far and I may not do much but I love the allotment and we’ll keep going and keep battling to have our things.

allotment, bathtub, bathtubs, Carrot, carrots, tub, tubs
December 20th, 2012
post by Timber-Gray | | 0

Long time needed catch-up!

Well now things have changed with the girls BIG time! We have added @roseycosie after the major loss of Cluck-Cluck. Rosie gladly let us use her name for our then newest girl who we still need a photo of I know!

Now we have three more girls! We have two brothers that are mates of our from the allotment site who have been deployed and we took in three of their chickens. Yes I know we need photos of them as well, but they aren’t looking proper as they’re molting and refuse to have their photos taken until spring when all  new feathers have come in and they look chickalous! Their names haven’t really been decided yet because I’ve not been able to spend the time with them like I was able with the first six. But I have some names I’d like to use with them, Mabel, Gretta, and Bird-Brain. It seems that the girls molt during the winter (burrr cold!) so they just wouldn’t look their best so we’ll get their new photos come spring, even new ones of the older girls of ours, because they’re all about the same age. The three new girls will be easy to tell apart, they definitely look different then the others and two are different breeds then our lot. So all we can do is hope they don’t drown or turn into ducks over the winter with all the rain! The new girls had another house put in the run just for them, but from what Si can find out, only two girls are using the new house which is good as not all nine girls are squished in the larger coop.

We also need to start getting out seeds together for the allotment and what we’ll be planting, but as I write this the allotment is a swimming hole due to two days of nothing but rain! Si took photos for me when he went to let the girls out, good thing we now have wellies as if not his feet would be drenched it’s that deep! I hope to try some corn again, spinach (us and the girls), potatoes, peas, rhubarb, our apple trees, and berry bushes, onions, carrots, garlic (trying again this year), broccoli (us and the girls), lettuce (us and the girls), strawberries (US ONLY!) sunflowers for their beauty and then the girls to peck apart again this year, some peppers Green and possibly red and Hot Peppers for the chili, maybe lavender in the tubs again this year, carrots again in the bath tubs, tomatoes, and who knows whatever else we decide or not decide to plant this year.

 

allotment, apples, beans, broccoli, carrots, chickens, coop, eggs, food, lettuce, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, rain, rhubarb, strawberries, sunflowers, tomatoes, tub
July 18th, 2011
post by Simon | | 0

>Carrots in tubs!

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Two different and nice views of our carrots they’re growing like crazy and I have thinned out some carrots so all sizes will be in the tub from small to large! Next year I’ll hopefully have more colours and sizes all over more tubs!
Carrot, carrots, tub, tubs
July 8th, 2011
post by Simon | | 0

>Carrot Tub

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These are the carrots that are growing nicely in the tub each clump are a few seeds that have grown. There are two sets and types of carrots growing together so we’ll never know what kind of carrots we’ll pull up, I just can’t wait until they’re big enough to big enough to pull and eat a few in a nice salad or on they’re own. They look wonderful and they’re draining nicely with all the rain we’ve been having luckily they’re growing great!!
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