A busy weekend at the allotment. After two weeks away the weeds have grown wild and autumn is making itself felt. Next door-who took on their allotment at the same time as us-have quit so we helped ourselves (with the secretary’s permission) to some of their onions and squash. Yesterday we harvested the end of our potatoes-more than we expected, certainly enough to get us through the next couple of months.

Some more carrots and the first leeks also helped the produce pile this morning.

We also got hold of some horse maniure, so (with a two week check to check it’s not got herbicide likely to kill my plants) we’llbe spreading that soon.

Made some more progress with the end wilderness section-cleared much of the dead grass and cut two of the four plum trees which were two close together to provide anything. The two left are still two foot away from each other, but I will give them a year’s grace and tlc before completely condemning them.

So: jobs for the next month.
-clear weeds, dig in manure, cover most beds in preparation for spring
-make path to shed ( now with guttering) and plant daffs up them
- make strawberry bed, transplanting strawberries from back garden ahead of conservatory work

That’s the biggies, of course there will be much more to do, all as the evenings are almost unusable, the weekends are full. But as these photos show, at least we’re getting something for our hard work!

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