Well, we are trying to get together a list of which seeds we want to buy, which we already have, where we need to buy them from (Allotment shop, or seed catalogue !). Nearly sorted now as Dave's dad managed to get 10 free seeds packs from The Daily Telegraph for £1.99, so we have sent off for those, there were 3 herb packets in there which will be nice.
Henry and I walked down to the allotment this afternoon, the weather was quite nice, a little cold, but sunny. It was really muddy down there but things were not looking too bad. The Broad beans had been buffeted about by the wind and some of them don't look too good, but we will see. We put some more string around them to hold them up a bit, to stop them being damaged by the wind.
We dug over about 1/5 of the bed so its ready for the early potatoes in a few weeks time, and we picked some purple sprouting broccoli, 2 leeks and the last cabbage.
The garlic and onions have come on in the last couple of weeks and hooray - the shallots have started poking through the soil - I thought they were a dud batch !!!
Monday, 19 January 2009
Thursday, 8 January 2009
The bare little Stella Cherry Tree
This poor little tree will hopefully be full of life and cherries by later this Summer - fingers crossed !
30th December 2008
Henry and I walked down to the allotment today to burn off a little of that Christmas excess !!!! (certainly on my part, not necessarily on his !). It was a long walk and he needed refreshments when we arrived (see photo of him in the shed !) We then spent the time we had down there doing a little bit of digging, checking how things were going in general. We removed some of the celeriac as we dug a couple up and there was no real big root at all, so we threw them away. We picked a leek, some purple sprouting broccoli, and a small cabbage for Henry's tea, and then we came home.
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