28th November - 2007

I had to dash over to the lottie today as strong winds and heavy rain is forecast for the next five days.I just finished planting my *Spring Hero* cabbages just before the miserable rain started.

Winter Brassicas Planted

Monday 19th in between very heavy showers I transplanted my brassicas from home into their new bed down the side of the summerhouse. Where hopefully they will be nice and sheltered. I netted them from the pigeons.

19th November - 2007

The large beds have now been manured and covered for winter.

19th November - 2007

I have sieved this raised bed to a spades depth. Planted onions and shallots in one half the other half will be for carrots next year. I netted it to stop the birds pulling the onions.

November 1st - 2007

Phew at last all the piles of weeds have been burnt. I did carry 35 bags of rubbish away to the tip. I can now see 100% bare soil.

Cold Frames

Hubby made me two cold frames from wood he had left over from a previous project. I have since painted them green. Think they will be used lots.

27th October - 2007

I'm spending 7 hours a day at the allotment and I can see real progress now. It's getting cleared. The weather isn't too bad which uis helping.
Hubby made two new raised beds. The green raised beds will eventually be replaced as they are made of thin floor boards and are quite rotten.

11th October - 2007

Two huge piles of weeds that need to be burnt. Collected some bags of manure from my sister-in-laws stables.

October 10th - 2007

Starting to see some soil appear at last I'm beginning to see some mess get cleared.

Good News

7th October received the good news that Plot 21 complete with summer house was mine.

8th October I was at the allotment early. Before I even stepped onto the allotment to do any work, I decided to take some photos. Wow...How exciting...weeds greeted me everywhere.
What I could not see was that the summerhouse was actually on a 360 degree deck.
The children from the local school had been there on the 5th and done some *Dig for Victory* lesson on the plot and created a large weed pile. Nice start.
I have to say I was over whelmed as to where to start. I got my fork and dug test pieces all over to get a feel of what the ground was like. Nice sandy loam.