Wet...Wet...Wet

It has been hard to get on the allotment for the past week or two, plus working away has not helped. However a little better weather has led to some progress. I am somewhat amazed at the growth shown by the potatoes. I put this down to a combination of very fertile soil following 20 years of wilderness and the sheer amount of rain into the ground....

Today I managed to put in 2 rows of dwarf beans.

Then dig some of the last bed and plant 3 butternut squashes and a row of 2 types of cucumber.

Finally it was on to hands and knees to take out the rapid weed growth in the onion bed.

iExplorer link posted

In case anyone is wondering what the previous post has to do with allotments, I posted it as a thank you for the team who develop it. It's a great app for browsing files on your phone and it's free. I would recommend it to anyone who needs to see the files on their phone.

iExplorer - Formerly iPhone Explorer, is an iPhone browser for Mac and PC

iExplorer - Formerly iPhone Explorer, is an iPhone browser for Mac and PC

Pushing forward

Once again dodging showers but managed to finish the middle bed ready for planting and make a start on digging over the last bed again.

Between the showers, another bed under way

I managed to dig over a fair bit of the second plot today, dodging the showers....

More progress and a diversion for bad weather

Between the showers, I managed to put in 2 more rows of spuds, earth up the spuds in the main bed and put in a row of cabbage in the top bed which I decided to cloche to keep the pigeons off. Then it really started to rain so I resorted to DIY....

I put in a long awaited loft ladder and hatch and ended up with a lot of nice pine so I went really mad and used it to design and make a really cool tool chest to bring all of my small stuff together in one place.... quite pleased with it.

Things are happening...

Not much to report for the last 2 weeks as I have been working away. However a trip to the allotmant this morning shows that things are starting to move now.

The first potatoes are up.....

...the onion sets are sprouting...

...the fruit trees are in leaf...

...the grass seed is coming up fast under the trees..

and the rhubarb is growing strongly.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and I painted the shed green!