Week 20

I can't believe it is week 20 already! Not much has been happening on the allotment over winter. We didn't go there much due to Christmas, illness and it being too cold and frozen!

Now we are heading towards spring it is time to get back to it!

One of the things we did do over winter was to fix the shed roof (or rather my dad did it for us!) It was in a quite bad state of repair with several rotten boards hiding under the felt that was letting in lots of water.

The boards have been replaced and new felt put on.

Yesterday I started to repaint the shed. It still needs another coat on the sides and back but I will have to wait for another dry day!

There are signs of life in the front patch where I planted onions and garlic before winter set in.

The never ending battle with the weeds. I have lost count of the number of buckets of weeds like this we have pulled from the plot. Hopefully one day we will have pulled enough out that the weeds will no longer be such a huge problem!

Week 4

This is how the plot looks at the start of week 4. Not much has changed as I have been ill with a cold for the past week.

Some winter bedding plants have been put into the flower beds as well as spring bulbs and a couple of other plants.

Just behind the flower bed the plastic has been moved back by about 1 meter to allow planting of garlic and onions. It has been weeded twice but the plot is full of weeds with long tap roots! It will be a never-ending battle to keep on top of them I think!

We also dug out a lot of bulbs which we assume are spring flowering bulbs, many are going to be transplanted into the garden at home, mainly because I am curious as to what they are (although some appear to be crocuses)

View from the shed (which we have now discovered leaks!) Weeding at this end has been a bit easier, it is mainly grass weeds here rather than the horsetail, buttercup and dandelion that plagues the rest of the plot.

We will continue to keep working on the plot as long as the weather allows us to.

After a weeks hard work.

Around the shed has been cleared of the original rubbish and compost heap.

The edges have been defined, lots of plants moved to pots while the weeding is carried out. The fruit trees have been dug up so they can be moved to a better position

This is how we left the plot late on Sunday 30th October. The front section is to be the flower bed, black plastic is a temporary measure.

Taking on a plot!

This is the overgrown plot we took over on 23rd October 2011. It doesn't really have any plants worth saving apart from some strawberries and the fruit trees.

I will be using this blog to chart our progress from this to a nice usable plot full of veggies next year (hopefully!)