Been a while

A lot has happened up on plot 5 since I last wrote the blog. It has been over a month and everything is changing. Our plot actually looks like an allotment believe it or not. Compared to what it looked like this time last year. A lot of hard work has gone into it and we are really happy with our efforts. We are being rewarded with some lovely looking fruit and vegetable plants.

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Visiting the allotment is now done in shifts. This is really because Jack and Harry haven't learnt about not treading  on the new seedlings and that not all plants are like herbs and can be pulled up straight away. Having said that they are enjoying growing things in our mini greenhouse at home. They were really excited to see the beans emerging that that planted. They both help water them and enjoy checking on them every day. The bean seeds were given to us by one of our allotment neighbours and they originally came from his grandfathers beans.

Dan has been visiting the allotment in the evenings on his way home from work and I will visit when the boys go to bed. It is really lovely and quiet up on plot five and the other night I was kept company by the swallows. They did a lovely dance for me. Our early potatoes have been doing well and we have been earthing them up. Hopefully we will have a good crop. Dan put in our main crop last week so we are all done planting and just have to keep our fingers and toes crossed.

The beans that we started at home in our mini greenhouse have all gone in now. Dan made some supports and the beans seem to like their new home.

We planted broccoli seeds and we were rewarded with some lovely plants which have now been planted up on the plot. We have also planted parsnip plants which my dad kindly brought from warwickshire for us.

In keeping with the recycling theme up on the allotment we brought a push along lawn mower from our local recycling centre for a £1. A bit of oil and a sharpen and it was as good as new. It does a lovely job.

The strawberries have been emerging over the past few weeks. This was the first signs of them.

We put some fleece over them to protect them from the birds. So glad we did. Here is our first strawberry

I was a little sad to see that something had been eating our beans and peas think it may be pigeons. May have to cover them over but we will see how they go.

The garlic and onions seem to be doing well as do the strawberries. We already have some signs of fruit so think the next job will be to put some straw around them and cover them with netting so the birds won't eat them.

Spent a good two hours weeding the beds on Friday and even plated some more peas. Really pleased with what we have done so far and every time we visit we love to see the new things growing.

No time for resting. Keep weeding.