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Managed to finish my winter digging this morning so more or less ready to get my feet up for the next three months or more as far as the allotment is concerned.

Just got to tidy up my compost heap and clean out the greenhouses and thats it apart from a bit of harvesting when required.

In fact I might leave my greenhouses until spring when I will give them a good wash out and prepare the borders for next season!

This is how my two plots looked when I left at lunch time today;



The two greenhouse to the right are on a neighbouring plot, and the hut is the community shed!

The nearest bed is two varieties of sprouts, Cabbage Tundra and Savoy Ormskirk.

The next bed is Spring Cabbage, and Garlic which has still to emerge!

My Japanese onions are on the netted section of the top plot!

That is my Leeks on the top bed left in front of the greenhouse!



And all I can say about the 2012 season is;

I had the quality but not the size / quantity so some things are in short supply this winter!

Lets hope 2013 is better, the seeds, composts and fertilsers for next year are all on order, and I expect delivery before the end of the month!

So as I said;- I am ready for hibernating!

Well done- hope you are feeling deservedly smug!

I wanted to say lucky boy, then I remembered the saying 'it's amazing how the harder I work the luckier I become' so well done Tee Gee.

Impressive.  Looks like you have earned a brief rest.   

Is the black effect on some of the beds a compost mulch?

Looking good i wish i was putting my feet up its that time when the leek trenches need the soil changing,3 done 1 empty 1 to do.

QuoteIs the black effect on some of the beds a compost mulch?

No it is just that it has been dug more recently!

Not even in my wildest dreams could I hope to have something that looked like that. I will plod on with my straggly leeks, wonky rows and weedy patches!

That plot looks wonderful......but I find hibernating rather depressing. If I am not out there under the sky several times a week I get slow and stiff. Maybe I am glad that parts of my plots are in such a mess that I have to keep going all winter to be ready for the spring......

I have lots of plans for re-organising shady areas for sitting in, chopping back the brambles in the hedge, moving the compost from a messy heap into the bins, putting up a polytunnel  and so on - jobs that can't be done when everything including the weeds is growing so fast.

What an admirable job. You have quite a farm! I often think of your weed-free flower beds while gazing at my weedy ones and it reminds me that resting on ones laurels doesn't work so well in the garden er's world.  Thank you for setting the bar higher for some of us, TeeGee.