20th September 2011 – Allotment Plot 326 – Harvest: Oriental Greens Tai Sai = 2oz = 50g; 1 x Courgette Patriot F1 = 12oz = 350g; 1 x Squash Green Hokkaido = 6oz = 170g; 1 x Squash Green Hokkaido = 13oz = 370g; 1 x Squash Green Hokkaido = 1lb 2oz = 510g; 1 [...]
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Filed under: Allotments, Harvest, News, Object
Social Tagging: Atlas • Cultivation Field • Dead Bee • Global Warming • Greenland • Lawn • Oak Tree • Plant Regeneration
Filed under: Allotments, Blight, Compost, Harvest, Object
Social Tagging: Allotments • Commodities • Compost • Objects • Squash • Tomato • Zombie
2nd September 2011 – Allotment Plot at MERL – For the human it was a very warm day, in an exterior context, such as the garden, but not if placed in an interior, where it seemed much cooler and autumnal. Ella Montt crouched next to the Plot. Her body moved slowly around the edge, redefining [...]
Filed under: Aesthetic, Allotments, Event, Plant, Planting, Root
Social Tagging: Allotments • Drought • Event • Plant Life • Plot • Seedlings • William Morris
11th May 2011 – In the studio, the cultivation of Comfrey and Sweet Potato plants in glass jars continues. The Sweet Potato’s rhizomatic roots were accumulating in to an amazing mass at one end of the tuber, whilst at the other end of the tuber the vine leaves also sprouted. Soon it will be time [...]
Filed under: Aesthetic, Allotments, Artwork, Harvest, Plot
Social Tagging: Aesthetic • Art • Harvest • Plot
The weather conditions on 09/09/2010 at Ella Montt’s Plot in MERL’s garden were favourable for early September, neither too hot nor too cold; there was a mixture of sun and clouds in the sky. Both white and pink Cosmos Cosmea were flowering. Ella Montt wonders if the structures of the Cosmos flowers are universally judged [...]
Filed under: Aesthetic, Allotments, Artwork, Event, Planting, guerrilla gardening
Social Tagging: Aesthetic • Allotments • Art • Growing • guerrilla gardening • Planting
Planting Performance (4) occurred on 13/05/2010. The weather conditions were warm and sunny. For several days prior to the Planting event, it had looked like it may rain, the previous evening dark storm clouds had gathered, but no rain fell. Temperatures were dipping down at night causing frost damage to some plants, but luckily not [...]
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Social Tagging: Aesthetic • Allotments • Organic • Performance • Planting • Plot • Seeds
Planting Performance at MERL happened on 5 March 2010 11am-1pm. Weather conditions for the Planting were good; frost overnight, sun bright and warm, slight breeze, last rainfall a few days before, specifics for planting were appropriate. Grounds men had recently deposited a large pile of compost that was available for usage. The compost was derived [...]
Filed under: Aesthetic, Allotments, Artwork, Place, Studio
Social Tagging: Aesthetic • Art • Seedlings • Studio
The seedlings were transported from the studio to a new growing location. The location or place being The Fixed-Up Greenhouse, which has become an extension of the studio, a working area for art practice and a home for the seedlings until they are ready to be planted out at the Allotment Plot at MERL The [...]
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Social Tagging: Aesthetic • Allotments • Growing • Seedlings
The Allotment Plot’s specificity is plant life growing at a Place which contains the Plot. The Place and its multiplicity is fold and refolded. The plant life’s roots and radicles are growing around the groundwork of the Plot. The Art Practice is wrapped with roots that radiate and shoot. All plant life being in its [...]
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Growing • Organic • Seedlings • Seeds • Studio
More seeds were planted at the studio allotment on the 27/01/2010. The seeds were sourced from Tamar Organics. These seeds planted were as follows: Aubergine Black Beauty x 15 Pepper Sweet Tamar x 15 Pepper (Hot) Ring of Fire x 12 Pepper (Hot) Early Jalapeno x 12 The seeds that had germinated on 29/01/2010 were [...]
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