#allotment-life

Sunset and Blossom trees at the allotment

plenty of seeds planted. The tomatos and peas have started sprouting. The garlic is looking impressive, another few weeks and it will be ready to harvest. Welsh onions coming on well. Gherkins planted

New Wood burner for the Allotment shed

Our allotment (community garden) is 200 metres from the nearest wifi source. so @stin and myself decided to try and setup a system to catch the signal and re-broadcast it to our fellow allotment gardener's

This is my MK1 version, made this from an old cctv cam, infrared torch and cheap 4.3" LCD screen and parts from maplin + screwfix. Because we have poultry at our allotment, we get a lot of rats stealing

This year i grew some Tomatillo's in the greenhouse, this one looks like a face lol . Taken with Fuji X-E1

Taken on iphone SE

Taken on iphone SE

Setting up a small solar system is easier and cheaper than you think, especially if you use 2nd hand or discarded panels. i was recently given 2 100w solar panels. the glass on the outside of the panels

Stringing onions is a good way to prepare your onion harvest for storage. First you need to dry your onions for a couple of weeks. If possible lay them out in the sun for a few days. Then dry them in a

The first batch of onions are ready. these should keep us going for a few months :-) Here they are drying out in the greenhouse.

We've had a good crop of blackcurrants and redcurrents this year. Theres still more to be picked :-) Its so satisfying growing your own produce. its cheap and you know its not got poisions and pesticides

Chemtrails and contrails. Taken on iphone 4s. feel free to use these images for your steemit posts. please credit me if you do. :-) images are for use on steemit only, or steemit related sites Please consider

Here's some more pics of my pet duck vic. She lives on my allotment plot (community garden) She is a Khaki Campbell. great for keeping the slugs and snails under control and lays an egg a day :-)

Fuji X-E1 - xf lm ois 18 - 55.mm lens.

Its a scorcher of a day today in the U.K. so i thought id bring my lappy with me to the allotment (community garden) and do some trading and blogging in the sun. Holly the dog. poppy flowering. Marjoram

These were taken with my iphone. I usually have my camera with me but this day i didn't bring it with me.

Taken with Fuji X-E1 and xf lm ois 18 - 55.mm lens

Image taken yesterday for the steemitphotochallenge 10/09/2016 30 second exposure, +1 bias f/22 . Fuji X-E1. No flash. Basic processing in cs6, no manipulation.