What a glorious week it has been. The weather has been fabulous and the sunshine always makes things better.
Easter Sunday brought lots of chocolate eggs and some broad bean plants. Dan's dad had kindly potted us up some plants for our allotment. In only a couple of days they had gone from seedlings to a nice sturdy plant. We are going to let them grow a bit bigger before we plant them in plot 5.
Dan went up to the plot after work this week and planted our early potatoes, chard, and sweet corn.
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We have bought our main crop potatoes and have opted for Albert Bartlett Rooster. We bought a 2kg bag for £2.50 from Wilkinson's. The beetroot we are planting is called boltardy it is supposed to be a very popular bolt resistant variety. We will soon see.
We also bought some herb garden mix from Aldi for £1.49 it includes common dill, chervil, black mustard, caraway, coriander, rocket, fennel, parsley and lastly sweet basil large leaved and fenugreek. It says it contains over 10,000 seeds and covers an area of up to 25m2. Not bad we thought for the price. We have planted some next to our strawberries and Jack planted some in his patch. All we need now is a good mixture of sunshine and showers.
Talking about strawberries. Our allotment neighbour kindly gave us a few more plants . we had some that we found in the undergrowth last year but we were glad to receive some more. We weeded around the plants and put the new ones in place. Dan put a dressing of manure around them.
One of our other neighbours gave us some lovely purple sprouting broccoli which dan used today in our lovely roast dinner. It was enough for two adults a small boy and an even smaller boy. It was really delicious and tasted even better knowing that it had only been picked ten minutes earlier.
Dan cleared out the old compost bin today. Nearly all of the wood was rotten apart from one piece, which we are going to use for shelving in the shed. We used our old water tank that had been left on the plot for burning the rest of it. We found that this really did a good job and also found out that it gave off a lot of heat. Dan is going to use a metal grid on the top so we can cook or boil our kettle on it. Maybe we could use it for a nice summer evenings BBQ.
Dan cleared out the old compost bin today. Nearly all of the wood was rotten apart from one piece, which we are going to use for shelving in the shed. We used our old water tank that had been left on the plot for burning the rest of it. We found that this really did a good job and also found out that it gave off a lot of heat. Dan is going to use a metal grid on the top so we can cook or boil our kettle on it. Maybe we could use it for a nice summer evenings BBQ.
The nice surprise that we found was another rhubarb plant which had been hidden under our wheelbarrow. It looks a good plant and will be ready in a few weeks. Any one for some crumble?
The last job of the weekend was to plant some peas. A little late but fingers crossed they will be ok. Jack really enjoyed helping put the peas in the holes. Think he may of put two in some of them as we seemed to have misplaced a few. All in all we had a really productive and enjoyable weekend.
The last job of the weekend was to plant some peas. A little late but fingers crossed they will be ok. Jack really enjoyed helping put the peas in the holes. Think he may of put two in some of them as we seemed to have misplaced a few. All in all we had a really productive and enjoyable weekend.
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