MY ALLOTMENT DIARY

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.

Looking down the site

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!!

http://www.freewebs.com/frogsnfings/backtothelottie.htm