I got my Allotment and started work on it early last year, with help from my husband.
This is a pictorial record of the way it progressed throughout the year.
When we took it over it was a mess. It hadn't been cultivated for several years...............6 at least, so we later discovered!! It had old bedsteads buried in it , and numerous other "treasures" appeared as we began to work. The first half was a matt of couch grass and perrenial weeds. When we eventually reached the bottom third we found that old plastic builders bags had been laid and overlapped with each other............over the years these had been grown over with bind weed and couch grass; they weren't even visible until we went to clear the ground.
Anyway................I hope you enjoy looking at the progression of the work..........
We took off the top layer of grass,
and undergrowth and thought it
might be a good idea to hire
a rotovator.
WRONG!!!!
The white bits on the ground,
in long rows, are Couch Grass
roots glistening in the sun!
Now its starting to look clearer. WE
dug two small beds down the end of
the site late the previous year,
to plant Garlic, and they had survived
the winter, so now we wanted to get
on and plant the rest.
Meanwhile, in between visits to the bomb site, I had been busy planting seeds at home. In fact they were all over the Kitchen! I think it was about this time when my husband began to wonder if I'd taken leave of my senses.
Eventually however most of them were transferrred to the greenhouse, to grow on a little and harden off.......................and wait til the ground was ready!!!
Finally
the seedlings get moved to the
greenhouse, and along with the vegetables
there are also sunflowers and various
other plants........I want a garden to sit
in when I rest for lunch. There are beans,
peas, tomatoes, carnations, larkspur,
cabbages, marigolds and delphiniums....
also planted were cucumbers and marrows
and courgettes, not forgetting the sunflowers.
The beans
are beginning to come through now,they
were planted in newpaper pots and old
toilet roll centres. At the back of the
greenhouse, tomatoes and cucumbers are
in the white pots (n.b.plastic drinking cups
are cheaper than flower pots),
The peas are in the brown pots!!
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