The plot continues!!

Plot 5 is looking great. Dan has been spending every spare minute that he has on the allotment trying to get things done. He spent a good two hours going over the large area that he dug and it's made a real difference. The plot is beginning to take shape now.

We have decided that we are going to work in a four yearly crop rotation. This means we will have Five main growing beds, four to rotate and one permanent one which we will plant herbs and rhubarb in. Hopefully this will work well and will produce some lovely fruit and veg. We will also have a patch that Jack and Harry will be able to grow their own things in. Jack is very excited about this, and has been given his own gardening tools and seeds.

Our allotment friends have been very generous and have given us some of their produce. We had some lovely runner beans and potatoes. We have found out that in our allotment  there is a stone that you can put any surplus produce on and any one is free to take it home. What a really lovely idea.

So now we come to the shed. We were hoping to salvage what we had inherited but on closer inspection we have now found out that the wooden frame is rotten. We are going to use the corrugated sheets in some way, but dan has had to pull the rest of it down. We have bought a door from our local recycling centre for £3.00 (a bargain ).

The up side to all of this is that we will be able to have a much larger shed. Dan has already constructed the 6'x8' frame and is putting it all together in between working and the rain. Watch this space!

Our old shed

The space where our shed was