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Plot Holes: August 2005

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Tuesday, August 30, 2005. Of mice and men (and yet more bloody couch grass). Plan: Spend three half days over glorious bank holiday weekend on allotment, healthy fresh air yada yada, get loads done, feel virtuous if sunburnt. Outcome: Spent vast amounts of money killing off liver, spent every morning in bed waiting to feel better, spent all of three hours on plot doing useful virtuous things. Am crap. Made interesting L shape with weed suppressant fab...

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Plot Holes: September 2005

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Tuesday, September 27, 2005. Finally finished amazing weedy seedy shady bed. I can't believe now that I was ever moaning about weeds before. This bloody thing wasn't just weedy, it was a perennial weed convention. The only things missing were the alcohol and the nametags. How does an eight foot root get in a six foot by four foot bed? Pulled a bit of plastic off to rough dig another bed and there is nothing on it but bindweed. How? A second photo....

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Plot Holes: April 2007

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Sunday, April 29, 2007. Apologies for the brief hiatus. And here is proof that I haven't been completely hopeless and spent the whole of the last year reading hecklerspray. And counting down to Eurovision (only around 20%). Let that be the lesson for today. Posted by Bandit at 10:07 pm. I'm a hack, writing on security, political risk, organised crime and policing. View my complete profile. But not exactly well laid out. Glub Glub. Glub.

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Plot Holes: October 2005

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Wednesday, October 05, 2005. Haven't a bed prepared for them, but will have to do so now or they'll go to waste. Also Nemaslug, which has to be used by end of October - wasn't going to bother but I'll have to now or they'll go to waste. Slightly confused, however, as have two parcels which have been at post office since Saturday and which I assumed were onion sets and Nemaslug. Hmm. Posted by Bandit at 10:48 am. View my complete profile.

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Plot Holes: January 2006

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Ye Gods this hurts. How not to approach preparing your allotment for spring planting:. 2 Don't undertake any physical activity for anything up to fifteen years. Don't even run for the bus. Get someone to hold cups of tea to your mouth if possible. 5 Occasionally transfer to a fork, spade, and grass hook to ensure no muscle group misses its punishment. 6 Get up on Sunday and do it again. 7 Then go to work in a kitchen. End re...

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Plot Holes: April 2006

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Tuesday, April 04, 2006. God, has it been that long? In my defence I've actually. Been at the plot. I have: Dug and raked and planted 3 types of leeks and 2 types of spring onions, all of which have failed to sprung. Killed my sweet peas. K from across the road, veteran of many a shared gin-soaked evening, gave up his afternoon in the Grapes to spend his hangover digging with me. He dug lots, I dug less. I was very pleased and grateful. Glub Glub....

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Plot Holes: February 2006

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Monday, February 27, 2006. This post is actually a week late because last week my thumbs hurt too much from digging to type. Eight hours over two days. Even the memory hurts. Posted by Bandit at 10:27 pm. Sunday, February 12, 2006. Potato Day and Chimpanzee Gardening. Will take some of them or I'm going to be planting the bloody things in public parks. Not guerilla gardening so much as chimpanzee gardening. Ah well. Posted by Bandit at 1:38 pm. The ba...

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Plot Holes: November 2005

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Friday, November 25, 2005. Yes, blog has been moribund, but then, so have I. Too damned cold to do a damned thing and all I've managed for weeks is to dig stuff and shove in some garlic and onions. Spuds have been destroyed by slugs and frost has probably killed off what's left. Posted by Bandit at 4:48 pm. I'm a hack, writing on security, political risk, organised crime and policing. View my complete profile. But not exactly well laid out.

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Plot Holes: May 2007

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Tuesday, May 29, 2007. But not exactly well laid out. Many many photos (okay, four) of exactly the same thing. In the foreground, earth moving, for the planting of potatoes and of asparagus. In the background, shent. In the middle, leeks. Oh, and a wheelbarrow that doesn't belong to me. Note the attractive arrangement of black plastic with stupid holes cut in it, and in the lower right hand corner of the picture, the Big French Tool.

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Plot Holes: June 2007

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An idiot's guide how not to approach a new allotment. Saturday, June 23, 2007. Dragged Best Friend up to plot today ("Come for a day in Cambridge! We'll do lovely outdoors things. The Backs? Well, the back of somewhere.") I'm rubbish. My garlic and onions have bolted, slugs are devouring the runner beans, accidentally planted dwarf beans around my bean pole pyramid, so will now have to replace them, and my lawn is four foot tall. Posted by Bandit at 9:20 pm. Wednesday, June 06, 2007. Glub Glub. Glub.