It's alive.....the plot is alive!!!!

The seeds planted a couple of weeks ago have finally broken through and now my plot contains green things that aren't weeds......whoooo hoooooo.

For your delight and delectation we now have:-

Cabbage

Spinach (Favourite of Popeye)

Leeks (Boyo)

Brocolli (The most evil of Vegetables and scourge of kids everywhere)


Also to protect these wee mites from those pesky birds that flock around the allotments, I devised a heath robinson bird scaring contraption out of string, sticks, tin foil, sticky back plastic, toilet rolls, and an empty cornflakes packet (well... some of those anyway).

The spare plots also got a second digging over ready for the cauli's and tomatoes that are making good progress in the spare room at the moment. They should go in Easter weekend if I have time between easter eggs and church ;-)

The Iceman Go-eth

A week of snow, sleet, frost, and weather generally not favourable to getting seeds to do anything bar hide at last is over. A couple of hours today spent removing the fleece that I am hoping has kept all my plantings safe and sound. If nothing starts appearing in a couple of weeks I guess it will be off to the seed shop for round 2 :-(

The last of the plots was also dug today giving my final plot looking something like this:-

Front half:-

Beds 6 and 7 will hold the tomatoes and cauliflower seedlings which are currently squatting in my spare room until they are big enough to fend for themselves (bless em).


Back half:-

Apart from the shed, kettle, comfy chair, and cold frame which only exist at the moment in my mind. Still, there's the rest of the summer to work on luxury's like that (Custard cream and Archers breaks permitting).

March..... really?

After the cracking weather and the rush to get all the seeds in during the preceding weekends, the forecast for Monday is..... Frost.... arctic winds... and Snow!!!!

So today was spent covering all the plots with Horticultural fleece in an effort to give the seeds n spuds underneath a fighting chance at not getting killed off.

Also a bit of housekeeping tidying up the plot, as well as the obligatory custard cream 'n' thermos of coffee at half time :-)

More planting

Put in another 3 beds at the end of the plot where the soil looks to have already been dug over by a previous occupant of the allotment.


These contain

Bed 8:
1 row Swiss Chard
1 row Spinach - Medania
1 row Fennel - Selma

Bed 9:
1 row Broccoli - Red Arrow
1 row Broccoli - White Sprouting

Bed 10:
3 row Leeks - Musselburgh.

Looking from the fence end of the plot this looks like -

This now means the front and back of the plot are now done, and there is now just a smallish section in the middle to dig the weeds out.

On the plus side most of the things I wanted to plant this year are now in the ground. Now we play the waiting game.

First planting ever in Huxy's lotmemt

10th March 2007

Today saw the first thing ever in the plot that wasn't a weed! A 4 hour marathon saw all the beds that I've dug filled with various vegetabley comestibles.


What went in (and possibly completely unrelated to what comes out) was:-

Bed1:
1 row of Spuds - Cara
1 row of Spuds - Lady Christl

Bed2:
2 rows of Shallots
2 rows of onions

Bed 3:
1 row of carrots: Chatenay
1 row of carrots: Sytan
1 row of carrots: Kinbi
1 row of parsnips: Imperial Crown

Bed 4:
1 row of Dwarf Bean: Annabel
1 row of Peas: Petit pois
1 row of Peas: Feltham First

Bed 5:
1 row of Sprouts: Wellington (planted by Harry, age 5)
1 row of Cabbage: Minicole
1 row of Cabbage: January King
1 row of Broccoli: Red Arrow.

Now all that remains is to dig the back half of the plot and get the weeds out of there so I can plant the rest of my crops.