Allotments 4 All

Last week & week before we bagged up over 150 rubble bags with 4 year old manure. Lovely stuff. We enjoyed the work, helping us to get fit. Today OH dug a trench while I put the manure in trugs & threw it in. We feel more like allotment holders now we are down to the nitty gritty. Hope to plant some autumn raspberries tomorrow.
Janet

I mulched half my asparagus. The plot feels a bit like Eeyore's Gloomy Place at the moment, there's so much that would normally have been done over winter, and hasn't been due to the weather.

I spent much of the day on the plot building a new compost bin to replace two temporary ones. I came home tired but well pleased with what I'd done.

Up there again today helping daughter Bunjy to do her edges straight.

Nothing OH managed to corner me into helping with the decorating...  :-X

So the old i will do the washing trick did not work then sads. ;D ;D

No but I've convinced her to spend the day in the Garden today!  ;D

planted 50 centurion and 100 stuttgarter sets  ;D
sowed some early nantes carrots in the hot bed and transplanted some spicy salad into the poly border  :)

Managed to get some done today... shallots etc... already listed in "News", now got to pack and tidy as away for the weekend...  :)

Well pleased today. I have been digging the beds over and today started on the bed that had carrots and parsnips in.  I have some lovely carrots and parsnips, I think the parsnips might be on a par with the best I have grown.  The proof will be in the eating though.

Went to the allotment and it was sunny and quite warm.  Crocuces and snowdrops and a few bulbs coming though.  PSB although netted has been eaten to bits seems to be recovering.  Few people up there had bonfires, but it was still wet.  Haven't seen Joe Swift up there lately and his allotment doesn't look any better than mine, so will have to be patient and wait until the sun shines and everything starts growing.  Keith's chickens were let out in their pen and enjoyed it, they look very healthy.  Didn't see the allotment cat, and my old lady next door has given up her allotment so felt a bit sad that I didn't have a good chat to her.

I've been up there a few times this week and cutivated the roots, spud and some of the brassica area, nobody else on the plot just me Robin, the lottie cat and half a dozen squirrels.   ;D ;D ;D

What a beautiful day it has been today. Found some jobs to do at the plot. Did a bit on my daughters for her. gonna sit down and watch my favourite comedienne Joe Brand tonight as she does a Britney Spears.

Dug some beds, planted some blackcurrant bushes, sowed broad beans and radishes. Now I need to collapse - my back is already aching!

transplanted teasels, planted some ailsa craig onion seedlings, noticed my rocket seeds are up  :)

Wonderful day.  Plans to go to Cambridge cancelled so did loads of pruning, transplanting, reorganising, ground clearing and mulching in my garden. Also tidied up the pond. Tomorrow, the allotment!

Finished digging ground elder out of a weedy patch. I was going to plant onions there but so much of it grew last year that I'm bound to have missed some. I'll try to put them in somewhere else so as to give me a chance to get what's left out. I may put peas in there because they're tall enough to hold their own even if some does come back.

We put in another raised bed, moved about 30 barrels of soil, weeded another area, planted 3 gooseberries and a redcurrant and put a load of woodchips on the paths.

Dug over an area at Marlborough Park allotment ready for the fruit trees and put the four fruit trees in a bucket of water ready to plant out tomorrow.

Went over to Allen Park plot and cut up some astro turf we found abandoned (genuinely) and made lovely paths (jane says so - I am not too sure) to seperate our earthed up beds.

Had a lovely chat to a fellow allotment holder, went over to our district allotment association trading shed for a bit of retail  therapy (£3.42!!) :)

What a lovely day :)

I was planting onion sets in the east, as the sun was setting in the west!!