At Allotment Plot 326 on January 14th 2011, Ella Montt planted some fruit bushes and trees. The temperature on that day was almost balmy. In the designated planting area the ground was dug to try to remove any bramble roots. Holes were then excavated and the roots of the trees and bushes were grounded and [...]
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January 30, 2011 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Plant, Planting, Plot
Social Tagging: Allotments • Fruit Bushes • Fruit Trees • Planting • Plot • Plot 326
Filed under: Allotments, Plant, Planting, Plot
Social Tagging: Allotments • Fruit Bushes • Fruit Trees • Planting • Plot • Plot 326
October 25, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Biodiversity, Compost, Digging, Harvest, Planting, Plot
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Digging • Harvest • Plot
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Biodiversity, Compost, Digging, Harvest, Planting, Plot
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Digging • Harvest • Plot
On the morning of 21st October 2010, an overnight frost had killed the Bean and Squash plants at Allotment Plot at MERL, leaving the remaining Squash Green Hokkadio vulnerable to elemental forces. The Squash seemed to be intact and was harvested, it had not met its maximum growth capacity because it had grown to late [...]
October 17, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Planting, Plot
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Planting • Plot • Seeds
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Planting, Plot
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Planting • Plot • Seeds
At Ella Montt’s Allotment Plot at MERL on the 15th October 2010 it was a perfect Autumn day, the leaves were gently falling from the trees in the garden (and along the foot/cycle path journey route). The Mulberry tree leaves, next to the Allotment Plot, had mostly turned to yellow. The Cosmos Cosmea‘s pink petals [...]
August 20, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Growing, Harvest, Planting
Social Tagging: Allotments • Growing • Harvest • MERL
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Growing, Harvest, Planting
Social Tagging: Allotments • Growing • Harvest • MERL
12 August 2010 – Two weeks had passed since the Ella Montt had visited the Allotment Plot. The Plot had not become chaotic, but was growing steadily. Ella Montt had visited a new Allotment site in rural South West England. The Allotment site had started cultivation in March this year after a village had decided [...]
June 13, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Growing, Planting
Social Tagging: Allotments • Growing • Harvest • Planting • Plot
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Growing, Planting
Social Tagging: Allotments • Growing • Harvest • Planting • Plot
On 03/06/2010 the Allotment Plot was experiencing another bright sunny day the temperature was significantly warm. The ground was desperately dry. Ella Montt who is the grower on this particular Allotment, sits next to the Plot and eats lunch in the shade of the Mulberry tree; the gaze drifts from the vegetable plot to cross [...]
May 30, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Crops • Harvest • Planting
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Planting
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Crops • Harvest • Planting
Ella Montt’s experiment of planting and harvesting at the Allotment Plot at MERL is on going. The first harvest (on 20/05/2010), which was over wintered Spinach, was inedible. The Spinach should have produced leaves that would have been harvestable through out the months of winter. The Spinach suffered crop failure and was regrettably dug up [...]
May 25, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Organic, Planting
Social Tagging: Art • Biodiversity • Crops • Growing • Organic • Planting
Filed under: Allotments, Artwork, Organic, Planting
Social Tagging: Art • Biodiversity • Crops • Growing • Organic • Planting
The over wintered Spinach planted back in the Autumn has gone to seed. On 20/05/2010 the first harvest was cut, producing one bag of flowering Spinach weighing 10oz or 260 grams. The Spinach on the Plot will be left for a week or so to see if more can be harvested or if the plants [...]
May 25, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Aesthetic, Allotments, Artwork, Event, Planting, guerrilla gardening
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Filed under: Aesthetic, Allotments, Artwork, Event, Planting, guerrilla gardening
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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 [...]
May 17, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Artwork, Event, Exhibitions, Growing, News, Organic, Planting, Veganic
Social Tagging: Art • Crops • Exhibition • Food • Growing • Harvest • MERL • Organic • Veganic
Filed under: Artwork, Event, Exhibitions, Growing, News, Organic, Planting, Veganic
Social Tagging: Art • Crops • Exhibition • Food • Growing • Harvest • MERL • Organic • Veganic
Kate Corder’s film Tolhurst Stockfree Organic Vegetables – March 2007 to February 2008 is currently on view at the Museum of English Rural Life until July 16th 2010. The film documents the growing seasons and biodiversity of the Tolhurst vegetable business over a twelve month period. Running time 124mins. MERL’s opening hours are: 9am to [...]
May 2, 2010 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Growing, Performance, Planting
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Performance • Planting • Seedlings
Filed under: Allotments, Growing, Performance, Planting
Social Tagging: Allotments • Art • Performance • Planting • Seedlings
Planting Performance (3) 22/04/2010 took place on a bright, warm, sunny day, with not an April shower in sight. Tiny companion-planting seedlings were delicately transplanted from their pots in the fixed up greenhouse to the Allotment Plot at MERL. Pot Marigold, Cosmos and Sweetpea arrived at their outdoor growing location. Small holes were dug and [...]
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