And in other news...

We harvested some more forced rhubarb.

MJC planted 2 beds worth of onions - Red Baron and White Prince (sound like characters out of a fairy tale) - and we still need another bed for the New Fen Globe. We'll definately be self-sufficient in onions next year.

I started weeding the area where the potatos will be planted and after I left to go the the allotment committee meeting, MJC dug two trenches ready for some of the potatoes.

If the weather's nice tomorrow evening then I think it's another solo visit for me.

Progress so far in 2008

MJC digging the top half of Plot 86. Luckily under the carpet that we put down in the autumn and the weeds was another layer of old carpet so the only weeds we have to deal with are some very tough, gnarly dandelions and docks.

This area will be for the potatoes and a big courgette, squash and pumpkin bed at the top.

In the foreground on the right is one of the gooseberry bushes (which needs clearing of grass) and the transplanted offshoot of Bramhope rhubarb.


View from the other side of the apple tree. We've cleared (hacked down) all the raspberrys that were under the tree and I'd found another currant (don't know what flavour yet!) in amongst them, so left that intact. We also gave the tree a haircut.

Going to rellocate some ramsons from Stone and plant them under the tree to develop our own source of the tasty greens.

(The timber posts are for swinging a hammock between in summer.)


Panoramic of both plots - 85a on the right with freshly dug beds, and the long view of 86.