Sunday 15th February 2009

Well, it felt like the start of Spring this morning. The weather was alot milder and there was 'almost' sunshine !!! Henry and I decided to go down to the allotment this morning to give it a good sorting out in readiness for the Spring planting to begin.

We arrived about 10am and were the only ones there at that point, but during the morning we saw quite few people arrive (Graham came, Maxie the dog and his Daddy, Mark the chicken man, and the tall Royal Mail man who gave us the leeks last year). It was nice to see it getting busier again, its been so quite recently.

Everything was looking well, all the trees and bushes had little buds starting so that was nice to see. The first thing we did was to dig over the new large bed ready for the early potatoes in a few weeks time. Apart from a couple of bricks and a bit of metal wire, this wasn't too bad. And Henry helped !!!

The next photo is looking at the broad beans (which are not doing as badly as I thought after the snow, they seem to have picked up a bit), and you can just see the new fruit trees as well in the background. Unfortunately the photo also illustrates all the work we still have to do digging out the back end next to the shed and getting ready for the greenhouse.