Again weeding, digging and some planting.
Planted Couve (Collard Greens Seeds), Portuguese Kale
Cabbages are showing signs of slug attack, so a generous sprinkling of blue slug pellets in order.
Wednesday – (Slugs)
Tuesday (Netting…)
Again, could only do an hour after work. Little bit of digging, little bit of weeding and then the dreaded…. Netting.
Trying to get netting on is almost impossible. Finally succeeded as you can see in the picture.
However, have now run out completely of the netting. Have ordered some scaffolding netting from ebay.
Still loving it.
3rd Day Monday
Could only do an hour after work, bit of digging, bit of weeding and put in some 25mm mdpe water pipe as framework for some netting (bought from Crossling on the coast road)
2nd Day
About 90 minutes work in morning
Forked bed 1, removed weeds, weeded between Leeks (or onions, not sure)
More weeding, lots of pulled weeds One tub of weeds into green bin.
Off to Stanton Hall to buy plants.
I can’t recommend this place enough. Local nursery, absolutely gorgeous gardens. Worth a visit just to view the gardens.
12 Kale, 12 Broccoli, 12 Cabbage, 1 squash, 1 aubergine
Kale and Broccoli into bed 2.
1 line of broccoli and cabbage into bed 1.
Squash and aubergine into bed 7, needed to fork and weed it first
Another hour of work. Finished with Sunday dinner (New fresh potatoes from the allotment, leavings from the previous owner!) and then into the spa for a bit of chilling.
Who needs a gym when you have an allotment!
Launch Pad!
Today was the handover, New allotment, signed tenancy at 2:00 pm. Was much better than we expected. Not to overgrown and still with fruit and veg growing.
Picked up tools and back for 5:00pm
2 hours graft and :-
Forked over bed 2, surprisingly, it must have been a potato bed, got lots of new potatoes, removed horse tail weed.
Pulled poppies, tidied up, mowed a little.
Sil picked strawberries and raspberries, also weeded strawberries. Harvested the last of the broad beans
Planted three rows of carrots, one of iceberg and one of lettuce at top of bed 2. Dumped tub of weeds at tip, went home made compote with strawberries and raspberries and chilled off in spa.
Both exhausted but happy, beginning of a dream…