Kate Corder

Author: katecorder

  • Allotment Aesthetics

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    After a week when the allotment plot at MERL was covered in snow, the vegetable plants are still surviving, but some are suffering frost and snow damage. It would seem frost burn is the condition, a few of the Broadbeans are slightly effected, as is the Garlic and the Peas more so, but there are…

  • Allotment Before Significant Snowfall

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    On Tuesday 5th January the allotment was visited before the subsequent significant evening snowfall. An hour after the visit, the snow started to fall. By morning Reading was covered in a thick blanket of 8-10 inches of snow. At the time of the visit all the vegetables were remarkably still alive. The broadbeans and garlic…

  • Allotment Installation

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    A garden shed, although not essential, is an important part of an allotment holders working space. The shed acts as a container for contemplation, thought patterns, rumination over tasks to be actioned or fulfilled, a place for rest from elemental phenomenon over a cup of tea and sandwich, a storage area for tools, seeds and…

  • Snowfall – Winter on the Allotment

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    Winter arrived at the Allotment in the form of snowfall during the night of the 17th December 2009. The snow was beautiful in it’s natural state creating an unexpected winter wonderland, however the streets and pavements of Reading became a treacherous mess for human activity. On Monday 22nd December further snowfall in and around Reading…

  • ‘Allotment Act – Groundwork’

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    Last week on Thursday, it was a good day for digging on the allotment plot at MERL. The weather was perfect, not to cold, with bright sunshine after recent rain. It was a day of excavation, a discovery mission to find out what was buried in the earth (not just worms, also rocks and artifacts).…

  • ‘Farmville’ Perception of Virtual Food Growing

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    Arts and Ecology posted a link to the doors of perception today on twitter about “Farmville” the largest game application used on Facebook, 62 million people have signed up to the application since June 2009, 22 million people on average are logging on everyday to see how their crops are growing. The idea behind “Farmville”…

  • Allotment Plot

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    The plot thickens. A uniform is most sort after for the Community Gardener and will be under construction sometime soon….. Herbs were planted at the Allotment Plot at MERL; sage, garlic chives, mint, roots scavenged from the somewhat altered Herb Garden at the Fine Art Department. Digital images were taken of peas, broad beans, onions,…

  • Guerrilla Gardening

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    Yesterday I went Guerrilla Gardening. The location was at the end of Cumberland Road just below School Terrace in Reading. The project was to weed a big neglected concrete tub, then to plant bulbs and other garden vegetation in it. Whilst I worked on the tub, various people spoke to me, most of them thanked…

  • Garlic

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    There has been rain over the last few days and some sunshine. The soil at the allotment has softened with the moisture. Today I planted two rows of garlic, each clove approximately 15-20cms apart. I used two types of garlic. The first type was Thermidrome,  one bulb that contained 14 cloves and the other type…

  • Working the Surface

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    Brown earth as canvas/paper, framed edged by green grass, crouching, bending, intent figure, drawing tools, fork, trowel, bulb planter, scratching, digging into earth surface, measuring and judging distances, carving space, planting seed action, scraping, covering, flattening earth disturbance, worm casts, avoiding worm harm, leaving seeds in ground, walking away, later watching magpies from the window…