Bring on the trug

The allotment is now rewarding us for our hard work. More radishes, some mixed salad leaves and a mountain of spinach. Salad for dinner it is then!

Today's jobs were cutting back the strawberry leaves to let the sun ripen the fruit, covering the latest sowing of seeds to stop the birds taking the seedlings and creating a grid system out of string and canes to support the broad beans.

Wire Green house shelves used to protect seedlings

Removing the large strawberry leaves

Nothing left to do

...just sit on our newly constructed bench, drink coffee, eat biscuits and wait for an abundance of produce.

Just a small space to the left of the photo for a further sowing of carrots, parsnips and swedes to get us through the winter (hopefully!)

Of course I didn't mean it when I said "Nothing left to do." The watering, hoeing, weeding and general care NEVER stops.

We are expecting to start digging up our first potatoes in a couple of weeks (when the flowers appear, apparently) and some lovely Broad Beans (which were planted last autumn). We are already collecting radishes, baby leaf spinach and, from tomorrow, salad leaves.

Yummy!

May 2015

Mostly planted up.

Raspberries, Strawberries, Blueberries, Brassicas, Mini Sweetcorn, Spuds, Onions, Garlic, Broad Beans, Leeks, Runner Beans, Butternut Squash, Carrots, Beetroot, Swede, Radishes, Parsnips, Spinach, Mixed Salad

 Our first produce of 2015...a radish

Theodore McNugget II