Allotment Apple tree shed 15-04-2011

Are you still enjoying having an allotment.

More each day! Can't wait to get down there! :-))

Since I took that photo somebody smashed the shed window! I arrived on Monday & opened the shed door only to find the cupboard below the window covered in broken glass with a couple of bigger pieces still hanging in the frame & small pieces scattered all over the floor!

There was a Police Incident card stuck in the window frame as well!

The following day while I was working on the 1/2 plot alongside the main plot a lady came by & asked me if I knew who the owner of the shed was as the window had been smashed. I told her I shared it with the owner & she than told me that she had seen a couple of youths hanging around & decided to see what they were up to.

She said one of them had a deep cut on his hand between his thumb & his index finger.. I don't know how he cut himself but I saw no blood on any of the glass nor around the outside of the shed on the ground. Only a few days before I had cleared away the grass & weeds growing there so it was bare soil.

Nothing, other than the glass, had been broken & nothing had been stolen. The door has no lock, just a catch & a hasp in which a long screw is inserted to keep the door closed when we are not there. They could have entered through the door & had a look in the cupboard without breaking the glass.

Its lovely have you had any success with the Freckles clematis seeds yet. Sorry to hear about your shed.

The apple tree looks good.
Sorry for the shed

Pleased your enjoying your allotment still, but sorry about your shed window.

The police rang Gerry & told him the "delinquents" were not on the police records so there is nothing they can do.

Nothing else was broken & nothing was stolen so Gerry has let the case go.

6d, I'm afraid I've had no success with Freckles at the moment but the yellow ones are doing fine & I must transplant them soon.

Thank you Balcony for the update.

I took a photo of the Clematis today but I didn't have time to transplant them as I had hoped to. :-(( I'm going to upload the photo to my photos so you can seen it. In just a few days during the past week they have put on a sudden spurt of growth. I even noticed some more of the seeds had germinated!!!

Thank you Balcony shall take a look.

I must put them in the ground somewhere when I get back from our visit to our boys & my wife's family.

All the flowers on the two apple trees have fallen off now. I expect this tree will produce as much fruit as last year, & according to Gerry, it always produces more fruit than he knows what to do with!

I hope the small one in front of the GH produces some more fruit this year. Last year it only made a couple of apples up in the top & they disappeared! I have no idea what happened to them other than I may have found one on the ground which I may have mistaken for the fruit of another tree on another plot not far away!