Hi ho - its off to work we go

Rebecca came to visit at the weekend and I did warn her that we would be working at the allotment. She seemed quite excited at being able to join us - and work she did......

She dug all the potatoes having pulled back all the black plastic which has a mind of its own.






She shifted barrow loads of weeds. Mainly bindweed which had grown long, pale and straggley under the plastic.






She made a start at digging over the bed, forked in a load of pelletted chicken manure and planted two rows of garlic.







We still have quite a lot of work to do on the bed to get it dug over ready for the overwintering onions. We haven't had a chance to get any manure dug in so chicken manure it is. I have 300 onion sets to go in and these should be ready for harvesting in June next year. I will use the rest of the bed to plant another loads of onions in the spring (I estimage about 500 should fill the bed) which will give us a September harvest as well.

The spring greens are overgrown in their pots so must get in the ground this week. There are far too many so I might try a bed at Old Basing to see which grows best. It is much more moisture retentive at OB so I am worried that they may rot over wintering but only one way to find out.