It does seem like all we do on our visits to the plot is dig… but we’re making really good progress and we can see proper soil!!
Today we almost cleared the area where Marjory used to live, levelling out and digging out the blasted dandelions…
New canes for the raspberries has tidied up that section very [...]

The Applemint has gone mad… it’s huge and shows no signs of taking a break!
When we planted it last year we were planning to plant it in a pot, but we forgot the pot and in our eagerness to plant everything we decided not to worry about it – “surely it won’t get that big” [...]

The herb plot is doing brilliantly – the sage looks, and tastes, fabulous and the thyme has amazed us.

Lisa spent a lot of the time on Saturday weeding the herb garden…

We cut the sage, thyme and chives for a lovely bread and the mint for a tasty salsa and a delicious pudding – all of which we shared with The Gang on Saturday evening.
Lisa is wearing the allotmentgirls t-shirt in pink from our [...]

A trip to the allotment for weeding this evening… it needed it!! Tony and Jordan came up to help – we needed them too!
We were delighted to find that beneath all the jungle of weeds our tomatoes were actually growing!! They’re little and green, but hopefully they’ll ripen nicely. Lisa’s mum has also given us [...]

Second trip to the garden centre today to get more plants/ seeds and other essentials including cute white panels to make a picket fence around our herb garden! Every girl needs one!
First part of our ‘allotment girl’ uniform also arrived – some rather fetching overalls that I am sure we will be modelling on the [...]