Popped down this evening to see the potatoes, already earthed up earlier on this week, making more bids for light. Another few weeks and we’ll be eating potatos morning noon and night. Also planted a few more broad beans, as the ones I’ve got in so far have been disappointing, and some carrots and leeks. And I know all our carrots have been disappointing, but I’m hoping that these will do well (hope against hope).

Oh, and I christened my new car with five bags of ‘stable manure’, which would be so much cheaper if we got it delivered straight from t’farm, but was easy to pick up from the garden centre tonight. I’ve dressed the raspberry canes and tried to get the grass away from them by covering up the mulch with fabric/plastic, but to be honest, i think Adam needs to get involved too…

Well after last years complete failure to grow carrots at the allotments I started to create the frames to hold the nets to cover out carrots and probably some other things as well.   I got half way through the first one of our frames but ran out of nails and screws so gave up since it was 3 hours since we first started….

After having a pallet waiting at the house for about 2 weeks we finally got it down to the allotment and created our compost bin.  Even if I do say so myself it actually looks quite good and so far (only a couple of hours) has stayed up!!!!!

Its amazing how from three pallets its possible to create a useful compost bin that we have been needing for ages at the allotment.  Ok maybe three pallets, 2 pieces of wood for stakes in the ground and a load of nails and screws.

After about a hour and the dismantling of one pallet and sawing the other pallet into pieces we got ourselves a new bin.

After todays efforts at the allotment I used photos from this year and last year to create a site image.  At least its better than the default one that was there.

Its amazing you have a couple of days away and the weather is fantastic and everything springs to life.  After getting back from the holiday the potatoes in the growing pot in the back garden needed to be covered meaning we would have to get down to the allotment to sort out the rows and rows of potatoes there.

After work Ms A when to the allotment for about an hour on Thursday doing the potato covering and also doing some general weeding.

Today we have spent most of the day down there (post to come about the funky new compost bin).  While I was busy with the bin, Ms A was planting the main crop potatoes so we have two rows of them in now so fingers crossed we will have potatoes all over the summer and in to Autumn (can but hope I suppose).  She also planted summer onions, again hoping that we wont need to buy any onions at least over the summer months.

Well we have had the allotment now for almost a year so its better late than never to get this blog started.  Last year we got the allotment late so it was difficult to get much done.  However we got a large crop of beans and probably the best bit was the largest sunflower that I’ve ever seen and grown.

Enough on last year lets start thinking ahead, well again the blog is abit late because plants have already been potted inside and we have garlic and onions already growing.  The potatoes (first earlies and second earlies) went in last week and today the main crop trenches were dug.

Unfortunately the weather is not looking good for bank holiday friday which is a really shame.