Plot 23

I'm back again, with another update on my allotment plot. Life has been getting in the way of time spent down on my plot, so I've been doing my best to squeeze in the odd hour here and there. Hopefully, now the nights are retreating as spring draws close, I will be able to get a huge move on and start planting some seeds.

Greenhouse

I've been tidying the greenhouse. Not so much as you can tell from this picture, but the inside has gone from plain chaos to organised chaos, which is how I usually bumble through life. I managed to get two cotoneaster plants from Morrisons priced at just £1.50 each, so they are ready to go outside once I figure out where they are going. Most of the missing panes in the greenhouse are now replaced, so it will be a good place for my tomatoes in the summer.

Digging and weeding

I've started doing a little bit of digging. The ground is a bit too wet at the moment for this job to be pleasurable in any way, but it needs to be done. I've dug up several of what I think were rhubarb plants; it seemed the roots had rotted anyway, so they were probably no good, but I'm not particularly keen on rhubarb anyway so I have made way for vegetables I will actually eat. The dog food bag comes in handy for filling with weed roots and taking them up to the fire hut to be burned.

That's the stuff!

There are two piles of compost, all nice and ready to be thrown in the veg beds. I've emptied one of the piles, filling another dog food bag and lugging it up to the greenhouse to shake over the beds in there. The soil was really dusty and no use at all, but now with a good load of compost mixed in, my tomatoes will hopefully thrive.

You can see the difference in the quality of the soil in the above picture. The grey soil underneath would have been exhausted of nutrients and I would have struggled to grow anything at all in that.

The next job...

The picture above shows one of the next jobs to be tackled. Behind the greenhouse is a homemade shed, currently full of rubbish and scary cobwebs. The brambles on the land here need chopping down and the grass tidying up; perhaps in the future I will have a few hens on this area. I could modify the shed into a henhouse, with perches and a nestbox, and the land is a good size to section off for them. Just hope there aren't many foxes that visit the site...