My mail order seedlings arrived yesterday. 3 Victoria Rhubarbs and about 20 leeks. They are so tiny but will give me a head start as we have so little space for propagating at home. I have asparagus, baby gem lettuce and wild rocket coming soon too.
I am gutted as I have really nastily pulled a muscle [...]
Archive for April, 2008
26th April
Posted in April 2008, tagged costs, couch grass, fencing, weedkiller on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Glorious sunshine today! My mum and I dug over one of the beds – destined for peas. I put down the weed covering felt on the top right bed which has quite a bit of couch grass in it. I have decided that I may ‘rest that bed for the summer and maybe weedkill it [...]
Getting Started
Posted in Getting the Allotment, tagged hints, planning, rotovator, sowing, tips, weeds on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK so the rotovation happened - immediately! I didn’t even get a chance to take a picture pre ‘weed chopping up and distributing’.
I revised, revised, revised – more than I have ever done in my life. Plans were started and discarded in a crazy scientist like fashion. A spreadsheet was born showing sowing, planting out and harvest [...]
Aquiring my patch – Feb 2008
Posted in Getting the Allotment, tagged allotment list, cost, council, rotovator, setting on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have always wanted an allotment to nurture so put my name on the council list when we moved to the area a year ago. It took about 10 months to get that call! It was worth it though. £16 bought me a half plot of surrey countryside to play with. I was so excited I took [...]
