THERE’S an old saying ‘seed for one, weed for seven’. This refers to the fact that if a weed is allowed to go to seed, the seeds will remain active for the next seven years.
On an allotment site, this refers to your neighbours’ plots as well as to your own. Being in the middle of the holiday period, most people take at least two or three weeks off at this time of year and, of course, this is when the weeds are starting to go to seed.
Most gardeners in their first or second year on a plot are absolutely amazed when they return from their fortnight in the airport lounges of Europe and elsewhere to find the plot covered in flowering and seeding weeds.
As an allotment site committee, we are very tolerant during August and suspend the usual cursory monthly plot inspections after which persistent non-weeders receive a written warning. We’ll be back on September 8 – beware.
There is still time to sow the seeds of perpetual leaf beet spinach to give a healthy green vegetable right through until well after Christmas. Prepare a couple of seed drills about six inches apart and sow a couple of seeds alternatively six inches apart in each row.
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