Great planning has gone into 2012...copious mugs of coffee...seed packets spread across tables...Suttons Garden Planner...a book and pen...endless lists...Cleve West's Our Plot...Andi Clevely's The Allotment Book...Allotment Month by Month...you get the drift?
For the first time, this year we are ahead of the game. Mulching is completed. Raspberry canes, where fruited have been cut down. Some weeding has happened, where possible, without harming vulnerable over wintering crops. Posts and wires are up and tightened for the fruits. Broad beans, Spring Cabbage, Kale, Onions, Garlic, Leeks are all in residence. The rhubarb is coming into life. It's all feeling just a little too good. My only blot on the horizon so far? Too many seeds and not enough space for what I'm planning to grow...oh no!
More space is needed and so we have started to strip away a grass path to the side that is overgrown with couch. Mr VVG reckons it's a 4' x 20' space. I'm hoping to get it slabbed out soon, putting some stepover apples along the border. It will provide a seating area and maybe my rosy tinted visions of a summer cook up at the allotment will become a reality. It will also provide space for some temporary planters...just don't tell the man digging it out....shhhhhh!
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