Progress on my allotment

A catch up from the visit to my allotment last Monday,

I have finally finished weeding my spud bed, it will have my main crop Sarpo Mira in plus one lot of early's that can be left as second early's - although I can't remember what variety this is.....doh I just need to move my sage..... I will wait until my seed potatoes are ready before moving them.

The rest of my early's I will be attempting to grow in large ikea bags, I have always used this method as I have a small garden but I think I have in the past tried to grow to many seed potatoes in one bag so although I had masses of potatoes they were small.

This year I will stick to 2 seed spuds per bag, filling half the bag with compost then filling up as the leaves grow. I have lots of carpet covered land on my allotment so I will utilise the space on top of the carpet areas. Along with anything I chuck in containers.

Chloe helped to sow tomatoes and yellow toms, aubergines, chillies, peas, chives and some morning glory. They are all in my little grow house with some early cabbage seedlings and various winter lettuce that I let the children sow last year!

Strangely the garlic cloves that I planted in modules last autumn have done nothing but the forgotten bulbs in my potato bed are all doing well in their new home

What are you going to grow this year. (One day I will have some followers)

Allotment

So last year, April to be precise. I got a letter from my local council to say that there was a space on my nearest allotment. I put my name on the list when I moved here and then forgot all about it as the lists are so very long here. It is a new site, and has been waste ground for many years but I still I jumped at the chance and promptly chose my plot; Number 13.

So it was full of weeds and huge! I did my best with it last year but it beat me in the end. By September I was wondering how on earth I was going to maintain it. But then For my birthday my lovely fella Chris, surprised me with a shed on my plot. My in-laws also surprised me with a wheel barrow, chair and new fork and a gorgeous sign for my shed! I was in love with my plot again.

Armed with my new camping stove and accessories from my besties I set about making some new plans for plot 13 and fingers crossed it will be a better year this year!