Sunny Monday Morning

Well Spring has really sprung........not only are there daffodils in bloom on the plot that rare breed, the allotment holder, is on the move again.   It's good to see the plots staring to take shape again, 1st earlies going in, runner bean  trenches being dug and the rhubarb is promising a good crop again this year.   Billy was up the plot yesterday cutting the grass with our new petrol mower and certainly  the plots look better for a haircut!

 

From somewhere frogspawn has appeared in the pond.......mind you they will have to be 'ninja mutant' frogs to cope with 72 plots!   But we live in hope.   I was up the plot just after 9am this morning and the mist gave everything an ethereal feel 

And you couldn’t see from one end of the site to the other........but when the mist burnt off it was a fantastic day.  
Mike has been busy putting up the new sign and was giving the shed it's protective coating today.

Just a few of us up there and maybe that’s just as well because I’m in the process of constructing plant supports and the air was blue as plan A and B had failed and plan C was not going well either!   Never mind will try again tomorrow morning.  Keep getting seed companies sending me catalogues with wonderful seeds and plants to grow and it’s like being a child in a sweetshop but did find a small sprouting broccoli – mine always seem to grow too tall and I end up staking them.  Unwins are doing plant plugs of Broccoli Bordeaux which only reaches 24” and don’t need cold weather to begin flowering, anyone tried them before?  

This being the third year I’ve been on the plot I’m now starting to know my plot, where things grow well and what it likes and doesn’t like.   It definitely doesn’t like beetroot!   No matter what variety I use or where it’s planted it never does any good.   But like all optimistic allotment gardeners I’ll try again and who knows this year may be the year of the beetroot!