@dandlyon
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dandlyon posted an update 12 hours, 24 minutes ago
Had to water by hand for a couple of days, battery was low so took it home to charge ..Next morning battery charger had packed up and battery comply flat.Not happy charger only 9 days old. Screwfix replaced it with no fuss but it takes 36 hours to fully charge battery.
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dandlyon posted an update 1 day, 11 hours ago
Trusses on Shirley tomatoes are getting heavy,thinned them down a bit and tied trusses up for support-
Thanks for this timely reminder Tony – probably won’t thin out any trusses, but there are surely some Crimson Crush trusses that need tied up….
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dandlyon posted an update 4 days, 19 hours ago
The gamble of growing spuds for show, until you empty one pot you have no idea whats going to happen. Recon these need another week. Only looking for 15 spuds from 30 polypots, the rest are for the pot
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they look good enough to eat
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Not ‘alf
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Nice, Tony
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 5 days, 15 hours ago
Cauli have a good wetting every other day
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 5 days, 15 hours ago
Tap water keeping plants alive some rain would help
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 5 days, 15 hours ago
Started lifting red onions, will dry at home in the coolest place I can find
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dandlyon posted an update 5 days, 15 hours ago
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Started lifting red onions, will dry at home in the coolest place I can find
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Tap water keeping plants alive some rain would help
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Cauli have a good wetting every other day
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Looking good
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They look grand Tony
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Wouldn’t it just
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good luck Tony
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dandlyon wrote a new post, COMFREY TEA WITHOUT THE SMELL AND A CONSISTANT STRENGTH 1 week, 1 day ago
Comfrey tea with very little smell and a consistant strength. Make a simple press, a plastic container with a lid. The size of the container depends on the amount of Comfrey you have available, I use a plastic […]
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dandlyon posted an update 1 week, 1 day ago
What a sight this morning,15 plot holders turned up to water Joan’s plot, and 4 offers to run her around until her car is fixed., I know it was not a bit of grit she wiped from her eye. this old fashioned friendship is a reason I spend so much time on the allotment site
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You have some wonderful friends there, Tony
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How lovely Tony, a wonderful goup of people
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The way it should be. Excellent
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How wonderful, and quite agree with Walt, exactly how it should be but sadly all too rare.
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What a fab bunch you all are Tony, great to see such a sense of community, love and care for each other.
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Friendship
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dandlyon posted an update 1 week, 4 days ago
A succession of brassicas that will hopefully mature between the end of July and end of September-
I do like this…so serene and sorted …bravo Tony
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dandlyon posted an update 1 week, 5 days ago
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Hope the judges give some leeway, Tony! They look good to me
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Not that I know much about ‘show fodder’ but they look wonderful to me too Tony
Good luck
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 1 week, 5 days ago
Except for the porch over the door the roof is toughened glass. Will keep an update on this plot ,the holder has lots of ideas .This is the new generation of allotmenteers
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dandlyon posted an update 1 week, 5 days ago
Evening clickers, last one to leave the site this afternoon, filled all my water containers while there was full pressure
WE have a new plot holder who is a carpenter building his own shed ,can see him getting a few orders-
Except for the porch over the door the roof is toughened glass. Will keep an update on this plot ,the holder has lots of ideas .This is the new generation of allotmenteers
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We have a few impressive sheds going up at our site now
one of them has a wood burner and French doors, someone could easily stay for a weekend in it
But what does make me think is when i first got the plot there was strict guidelines on the size, and most up there is way past these
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Looks interesting, Tony – but a potential target, as Karen says.
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dandlyon posted an update 1 week, 6 days ago
Evening clickers, no internet for a couple of days, the modem or what ever its called had packed up. Part of Sunday lunch after a lot of work, rocket spuds and Candid Charm cauli-
cracking Caulis Tony
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These both look pretty wonderful – but I’d really expect nothing less from you, Tony.
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Seems to be a good year for cauli judging by our clicker photos.
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Nice ones Tony,
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dandlyon posted an update 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Morning clickers, still wall to wall sunshine, any veg grown in back gardens or on allotments this year will have be well earned. Have gone from using fleece for frost protection to using fleece to provide some form of shade
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Morning Tony. My courgettes are certainly not getting to their normal size but the beets are doing well.
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Morning Tony
fleece is a good idea for shade, especially for lettuce, I think. HAGD
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dandlyon posted an update 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Nearly missed , Happy Birthday Anne
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Thank you Tony
… never too late for me … love birthdays
Nightnight
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dandlyon posted an update 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Tomatoes seem to be coping with the heat, the green house door has been open for a month-
Ooh…you have tomatoes already
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I have quite a few Tony but they aren’t ripening yet.
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dandlyon posted an update 2 weeks, 5 days ago
My neighbours lavender always looks good-
It’s lovely Tony. Pierre used to grow it like that in his first home in S.France..I tried but was unsuccessful in GG. That open position suits the plants well
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Gorgeous Tony, I love lavender.
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dandlyon posted an update 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Happy Birthday Cilla And Sue
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Thank you Tony…..in Micky’y P’s words, it was Bostin
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dandlyon posted an update 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Evening clickers, another scorcher, our site was deserted before 1o’clock. I parked my scooter under a big tree by Joans plot, reclined the seat and fell asleep for 2hours..Joan arrived at 3 and woke me up to enjoy a Magnum ice cream she had in her chiller bag
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Blimey, there’s service for you Tony,
Looking like another scorcher here again today, but I tend to try and get things done in the, relative, cool of the morning. Stay cool today. 
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Quite an undertaking watering your intensively growing plot by hand, Tony – hope you aren’t too knackered. We have some rain here this morning, but I was watering until 9.30pm last night – pain in the neck!
Morning Tony and Sheila
that’s a right pain for you, Tony 
Hope today will be easier.