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Sorted out some compost bins - the contents are still frozen, but I was able to lever one pile apart and redistribute it, giving me three empty bins when I start sorting the garden out. Pruned some young apple trees.

absolutely nothing but i did have a very busy november the compost bin has been emptied and moved the new fence is up the veg patch is yet to be dug over but all the tubs were tidied emptied and weeded as appropriate i am now waiting for the time to start seeds for tubs etc i have had a complete rest from it all for a couple of weeks will dig the garden over when it defrosts though
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Ahhh..first bit of 'gardening' for this year done..and for last 4 weeks ;D..the mind was keen and ready for it even if the body was bit against.
I finally got my winter onions in, planted in modules as ground is unworkable. I know they are late...but they have a chance to produce or not..either way I only paid 20p for them from clearance sale ::)
Got some softneck garlic into modules as well and some other hardneck garlic bulbils in too.
.......and my 'mol lols' leeks for seed saving circle ;)
Sorted through most of my shallots..to eat and to grow lots...I didn't realize how well I did last year..I still have loads to eat and they will keep us going untill chives arrive.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh......I feel so much better now....Instant pick me up.......now I can happily climb back  into bed and nurse the long lasting cold/flu away ::)

on NYE I cleared one of my plots (giving one plot up, ain't got time to manage 2 plots and run our association)  :(
today I dug up some carrots and parsnips for lunch.  ;D

yesterday we cleaned one side of the 30' polytunnel with jeyes and warm water, just as well we started early, its going to take another few goes to finish it  ;D

Yesterday I harvested a celeriac and dug, no, excavated a monster parsnip for my roast dinner.    ;D ;D ;D 

Yesterday, dug over a small patch, weeded half of my onion bed, and nailed back together some of my wooden edging on my beds..

First time I have managed to spend some quality time at the plot since November  :'(

I am replacing some of the wooden bed edging and making some proper raised beds - 2 will be 12" deep and one will be 6" deep.  One deep bed completed today and half filled with garden compost and manure.

Took a digging hoe to some unwanted grass.

delivered the last of the new locks and keys (24 & 832) to site secretaries.
that should help with the current spate of allotment break-ins!!

Cleared some more of that grass. We've been having the annual round of break-ins as well. It always seems to happen in bad winter weather when nobody's around.

crossing my fingers today so that I can get the garlic in tomorrow - getting desperate but what's a girl to do  ;D

today I dug a bed over, I was going to spread some of the ocmpost heap over but found that its become a foxes den, so left it alone for the minute.

Dug up some parsnips.

Today I dug out lots more weeds, chopped down bramble bushes and extracted the collapsing arch it was climbing and tidied up the shed.

Still taming the plot having taken it over in October. 

Dug out some bindweed. I'm going to be doing lots of that.

Dug up some more weeds

cleaned most of one inside wall of the polytunnel  :)
painted some of the scaffolding boards ray is re-building our beds with. like the forth bridge  ::)

chopped back the roses destroyed by the weight of snow to get at the buckled rose arches and  ....... finally, at long last  .... be able to access the shed again!

Dug up Parsnips and Winter Radish... salvaged some celeriac... stood up a water butt that had fallen over...  :o
Dug some leeks, did some tidying in the greenhouse, picked some land cress and did some rough digging... to finish it all sat on the pew with a beer... as the sun went down... first of the new year!  ;D

We dug over nearly 300 square foot, had a bonfire, dug up some parsnips  :)