Category: Gardening
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Report from the Fixed-Up Greenhouse
Report from the Fixed-Up Greenhouse is as follows: Tomato plants that were planted in January are not looking good. Suffering cold and frost damage, some have died. The plants that are ‘alive’ look already blighted. More seeds were planted as replacements. Tomato Zuckerman 13 plants alive. Total of replacement seeds planted = 6. Tomato Chadwick…
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Planting Performance at MERL
Planting Performance at MERL happened on 5 March 2010 11am-1pm. Weather conditions for the Planting were good; frost overnight, sun bright and warm, slight breeze, last rainfall a few days before, specifics for planting were appropriate. Grounds men had recently deposited a large pile of compost that was available for usage. The compost was derived…
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Rhizome and the Plot
The Allotment Plot’s specificity is plant life growing at a Place which contains the Plot. The Place and its multiplicity is fold and refolded. The plant life’s roots and radicles are growing around the groundwork of the Plot. The Art Practice is wrapped with roots that radiate and shoot. All plant life being in its…
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Studio Re-potting
The first seedlings were re-potted in the studio allotment on the 4th February. The tiny seedlings were tentatively dug out of their plug trays with a spoon, then delicately transplanted into the waiting earth in their new (recycled) pots. Their radicles (embryonic roots) were carefully covered. Their hypocotyls (embryonic shoots) uncertainly sitting weakly in the…
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Seeds at the Studio Allotment
More seeds were planted at the studio allotment on the 27/01/2010. The seeds were sourced from Tamar Organics. These seeds planted were as follows: Aubergine Black Beauty x 15 Pepper Sweet Tamar x 15 Pepper (Hot) Ring of Fire x 12 Pepper (Hot) Early Jalapeno x 12 The seeds that had germinated on 29/01/2010 were…
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Studio Allotment
The Allotment in the studio is in its early stages. Within the first week that the seeds were planted, tiny seedlings started to emerge, somewhat prematurely. “January – March” was the suggested planting window on the seed packets, but if the plants develop too soon there is a danger that they will die and be…
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Seed Planting
Seeds were planted in the studio for the MERL allotment plot. The studio will act as a propagator for the photosynthetic organisms to generate. Old plug trays were used as initial receptacles for seed germination. Seeds are from Tamar Organics. Compost originated from recycled green waste matter collected by RBC processed into compost and then…
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Allotment Aesthetics
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…
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Allotment Installation
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…