Super Sunny Saturday
Today was a perfect Spring day… warm sunshine, birds tweeting and much happiness from allotmenteers! Peering beneath the groundsheets we found the Rhubarb has survived and is looking rather healthy… with a bit of luck we’ll be over-run with it – we love it! Perhaps we shouldn’t mention that, it’ll be our summer equivalent of the allotment-owners courgette glut! We had a good old digging and weeding session (as always!), and planted some radishes (Scarlet Globe), lettuce (Tom Thumb), spinach, rocket and salad leaves – from the old seed stash though so whether they come to anything will be a miracle, especially as we forgot the bird scarers again. ...
Read MoreLazy Girls Make an Effort
Yes, we’re lazy, we know it! But today we went up to the plot to clear LOADS of weeds… We had breakfast – lots of raspberries, straight from the canes – delicious! Shop-bought berries really pale in comparison. Potatoes are looking healthy, plenty of time to go before we dig them up though. And we planted a row of beans (Cobra) – the seed packet was very scruffy and out of date, but you never know! Then it started to rain, so we legged it!
Read MoreDodging the Rain
The weather wasn’t so kind today, but we managed to dodge the rain to get two rows of potatoes in (King Edwards) and a lot more weeding done. We also harvested three sticks of rhubarb and a test onion! Oh, and some sage… it is going mad so need to find a good way to dry it or freeze it – any tips? Hopping around us for much of the morning was the friendly robin, loving the fact that we were unearthing a lot of worms for him… greedy little thing!
Read MoreHeatwave!
We had a great time on the allotment today, basking in the sunshine! Of course we still had our wellies on Lots of weeding to be done, the dreaded dandelions are in full irritation mode. Raspberries are looking great, buds on all of them and the herbs are going mad – woohoo!! ...
Read MoreSigns of life…
No, not us! Spring is definitely here with green shoots sprouting up all over the place – thankfully they’re not all weeds… The rhubarb is coming up really well and the raspberry canes are going mad, so we’ll be ok for puddings this year! Tonight we completed the weeding around all the crops, so it looks so much better now. Just the rest to dig over and a strip of grass that previous owners had as a path to get rid of – we may have to cover that over for a few weeks to help shift it. Looks like we’ve got ants back in the compost bin… might try the cinnamon technique on them, it worked well in Lisa’s wormery so is worth a...
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