Gonna give up and pave over my allotment

[Di]

White rot
bolting
duck weed
drought
couch weed
slugs
pigeons
sprained ankle

and far too much to do... whole areas still unplanted, soo behind.

Someone remind me why we do this

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Di, i'm not sure why we do keep going sometimes, but one thing i do know is, if you do give it up you will know the reason in three months time.

Hope your ankle soon mends.

[richard p]

sounds pretty normal to me

[Stephen]

Di
Sorry to hear your news - persuade someone to take a deckchair to the allotment for you, so you may sit in the sunshine.

[Monika]

Don't worry, Di, we all feel like that sometime - until we sit down to a lovely vegetable pie, all homegrown. And sprained ankles mend, too!

[Di]

Stephen, lovely idea that watching someone else work, however the slaves in these parts are a rebelious lot and have nicked the deckchairs for themselves.

Think I'll go down tomorrow evening and strim the weeds, that is always the biggest boost in the shortest time, and then see if the black birds have left me some black currants.. (fortunatley they seem to prefer the red ones....and generally I prefer baby blackbirds to redcurrants (no, I don't mean to eat)).

Usually it takes till august for me to feel overwhelmed, wondering if the extra half plot was a good idea, but it should get easier in following years if i keep bashing the weeds.

Still grumpy about the white rot though - off to do Mutley impressions in the corner. Schuzzlewuzzlemisslruzzelgrryschuzzlewazzlegrissel..