Flighty’s plot

As I mentioned last week this is now the category for aviation related entries.

This superb photo is as good as it gets and is what I see when I turn my PC on being my new desktop picture.

If you want to know what the sky high view looks like from this classic aeroplane then have a look at this!

was a regular feature on my Flighty blog.

Recently they have tended to be mostly about terrestial TV science and nature programmes, such as the forthcoming Autumnwatch.

I intend to continue with these entries and they will resume properly the week after next.

I’m sure that most of you will have realised who Daffy is, and if not then to use her words…Hello, it’s Feathery Snowdrop! She said in her entry yesterday that she was happy to be here on WordPress blogging rather than have stopped. I commented that the blog world would be a poorer place without her.

Someone else who’s moved here from Platform27 and changed names is Cafecortado who was Cafeconleche.

Another WordPress friend is Uphilldowndale who usually writes fairly longish but highly enjoyable entries, complete with photos, as you’ll see when you read Do You Want Jam On It?

As I’ve done in the past I’ll do occasional entries where friends, and others, will get a linked mention for entries such as book reviews.

Have a good weekend.

it does, and when you do want it to it doesn’t ! It hasn’t rained here to speak of for at least three weeks and I want it to.

I’m waiting to sow some seeds but really want to do so after it’s rained. The weather forecast shows no sign of any so it looks like I may have to resort to borrowing a hose.

[It's now Monday morning and absolutely pouring down! So much for the forecast!]

Last Sunday was a glorious day. I spent the morning moving six comfrey plants to the far corner of the plot beyond the compost heap. That means that my blackberry now has the area between that and the pallet patio to itself. It has grown noticably over the past two weeks.

Today has been another fine day so this morning I worked along the top, northern edge, alongside the roadway. I intend having a grass verge there along with crocus and dwarf narcissi

Midway along that strip is a Common Hawthorn only a few inches tall which I shall leave for the present and see how it grows.

As I was packing up to come home I heard a gentle rumble in the air and looked up to see this wonderful classic aeroplane turning to land at nearby RAF Northolt.

In the bookshop yesterday I was looking for poems for National Poetry Day and found several gardening ones including this one.

The Vegetable Plot

Remember, remember in dreary September

The fate of the vegetable plot:

Where, all through the season,

For some puzzling reason,

Though weeds have grown, your seeds have not.

I started this blog a few months back just to write about my allotment, Plot 124.

I have now decided that it will be my primary blog, and include entries that previously would have been done elsewhere.

That means that FlightBuff, Flighty and BookBuffs have now become inactive, although I won’t be deleting them.

I shall be continuing with MrFlighty as my other active blog.

As you can see I’ve made changes to, and expanded, my Lawn Loungers listing of friends, and moved some links elsewhere.

Entries will now be posted into one of four categories.  Plot 124 is for ones about the allotment. Sky high is for any aviation related entries. When I read or watch TV I invariably do so with a cup of tea and a few biscuits so relevant entries will be posted under Tea time. All others will be found in Off Plot.

Thursday 4th October is National Poetry Day with the theme Dreams. I think that is a really good subject, especially for gardeners.

Hopefully I will be doing an appropriate entry on all my blogs, including this one.

This entry that I did last year on BookBuffs would have been perfect for here.

I hope that on the day everyone will join in the fun by doing an entry, or at least commenting on other blogs that do.

The good weather continued throughout last week which meant that I was able to prepare an area for sowing some flower seeds and partly prepare a smaller area for some vegetable seeds. That I shall do in the next week or two.

Between the pallet patio and the compost heap are a handful of comfrey plants which I’ve left for the bees to make the most of the flowers.

Today I cut them right back adding it all to the compost heap and hidden away found this  Lucky me as it’s a blackberry, which along with raspberries, are my favourite soft fruits. It can stay where it is and grow away so that hopefully next year there’ll be plenty of for me to pick and eat.

I was at the Horticultural Society’s hut this morning buying a few things including a packet of Green Manure Winter Tares which I shall sow on the vegetable patch area that I don’t intend cultivating until next spring.

that I started clearing Plot 124. I’ve worked slowly and steadily a couple of hours two days of each week since then and I’m well pleased with what I’ve done so far.

This photo was taken today from the southern end of the plot looking north. It’s all been forked over once and the top half has been gone over again. To the right you can see the edge of the compost heap and the pallet patio.

The latter looks like this It’s on bricks and you can see that I’ve given it a coat of green wood preserver. It’s 6 by 4 feet which gives plenty of room for the planned shed, which is 3 by 2 feet, and a deckchair.

I’m planning on sowing some flower and a few vegetable seeds sometime soon, planting bulbs and then later on the roses. I’m still thinking about what and where though!

I like this time of year and given good weather can see me continuing to make further good progress.