Tuesday 20th May 2008

We had quite a productive time at the allotment today. Some people from the council and the allotment association came round and they seemed very pleased at what we had achieved already so that was nice. One of them had a look at my shoots coming through to help me identify whether they were actually weeds or vegetables !!! And he confirmed that the things I thought might be potato plants were weeds, but that we did have a row of lettuce leaves coming through which was very exciting.

After he left Henry discovered that we had a few pea plants starting to push through the surface as well. It is such a nice feeling to think that we just put a little seed down and now it is a little plant which willl hopefully give us some nice peas in a couple of months time :-)

Other than watering all the plants we just continued the digging and now the whole plot is nearly dug over. Dave asked Nige whether he would be able to get some boards to continue edging the beds and he will look at what they have at the weekend. It really is coming on !