First visit of 09 to the allotment to check it survived the winter, and it appears to have done OK. The garlic I planted in there last year is now sprouting as you can see from the straight lines in this bed (or the weeds have been putting in some hours over winter on the close-order marching field).
The leeks don't look to have grown much over the past couple of months so I pulled a couple to have with my roast beef tonight. There wasn't that much below ground so this year I think I'll have to bury them a bit deeper to get a decent amount of leeky goodness out of them.
The rest of the beds got turned over to expose the waterlogged bits underneath to the sun to get them to try out a bit. The bags of manure I dug in at the back end of last year look to have done the trick as the beds with this in them are much lighter.
Spuds were picked up at the Easy Anglian Potato Day (no.. really) and are merrily chitting in the garage ready to go in the ground in a couple of weeks when the frost and snow and general nastiness is over and done with.
When the weather is a bit nicer, the whole plot needs a good weeding as the pic below shows, but the beds themselves are pretty weed free (possibly due to having weedkiller on them last year.. grrrrrr)
