first harvest

we had our first harvest this week, lovely raddish the size of golf balls and some lettuce. we think our prob with the seed theif is over now we havent had anything go a miss for some weeks. robert has been busy putting in some paths for us and he has built us some raised beds. which im sure we will soon get filled up. everything else is growing like fury. the potatoes are just putting in an apperance now, the men that used to work the alotment said they could neveer get potatoes to grow. so nana na nana to them we have them growing strong.

busy time

well we have been really busy on the allotment the bit of good weather has sent everthing in to a frenzy, will be adding pics soon

seed theif

yesterday we discovered we had a seed theif, all the larger seeds we had planted sunflowers, sweetpeas, peas and beans. are all gone all thats left is the little spouts just left on top of the compost, we think it may have been a mouse just helping its self to our seeds. it hasnt touched the smaller seeds like spring onions ,tomatoes carrots or any flowers, we have managed to transplant some seeds in to other trays, and actually put some raddish and other veg in to the plot, dont think they will last after we had finished the weather report was that we are going to have an arctic blast this weekend. well the weatherman dosent always get it right, hiope he is wrong this time too.

photos of the seeds in the green house

rain RAIN rain

well we had big plans for a full day on the allotment today, but it has been raining none stop since early morning, so that put pay to our big plans. ive been looking around the web and come across some lovely gardening sites, with lovely colourfull pics of lovely cottagey plants so im goung to share them pics with you, and brighten up the day with them.

dont they make you feel all summery

these are the pics of the primrose's we put in on monday, sandy made a scrapbook layout with these pics here

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a splash of colour

we decided that it looked really drab on the allotment and needed a splash of colour so we went and got some primrose's, just to brighten it up. they look nice so we put them across the top of the potatoe bed, now we feel like there is life there, we noticed some of the seed'd we planted had started to sprout so thats gonna give us another incentive to keep at it, sandy brought seaweed back from her trip to angelsey at the weekend and we spread that out on the potatoe beds, i read somewhere that it was very good for the potatoes. she also bought some perenials that she wanted to plant so we found a little bed and she put in her hollyhocks lupins and sea holly, so it will be really exiciting when they start to grow to,we have decided that we are gonna put in some flowers as well as the veg.

these are what we are hoping the flower plot ones will look like.

sandy loves that cottage garden look so there will be more plants added when she gets round to splitting what she has in her garden, delphiniums, larkspur foxglove more lupins and all that kind of stuff.

i bought a few packs of seeds todayto plant when the time is right, candy tufft, sweet william night scented stock godetia, these always remind me of our dad he always had these growing in his garden, though he never spared much room for flowers he grew mainly veg in both his front and back garden, he was one of those men that could grow anything but he liked to be able to feed himself off the land,with growing his own veg and hunting with his lercher for rabbits, he was also a very good cook and rabbit stew was usally on the menu with dumpling to die for.

another day another plot dug

we got another plot dug and weeded, it seemed to take forever this one was twice the size of the others so it took nearly a full day to complete this one , now things are starting to look a little in order.we decided to put visqueen down in between the beds for easier walking between and we are gonna put bark or some sort of chippings on it , just by doing that it made a hell of a difference to the apperance of the allotment, like someone is actually doing something there. we got the early onion sets in too today too.

the boys were designated there space two small beds at the far end and they happily dug and weeded and dug and dug and dug, then stated that they had made it rain in affrica, when we looked up oran was covered in sluch from head to toe , they had dug a hole about 2 foot deep and filled it with water and then accidently slipped in to it you can imagine they state they looked, hence he had to travel home in the car semi naked, but at least the poor people in africa got some rain LOL!!

Scarecrow

i was wondering if we would need a scarecrow? or do you think she will do


robin
yeah he came again today, he was a little braver he came quite close and perched on the fence post to observe our work, we made a sort of feeding table for him and put in seeds and dried mealworm, which when we were at a comfortable distance for him he explored and enjoyed lunch , he retreated to his tree branch then and sang his heart out.

suggestions
there is an area that we call the wilderness and we are looking for suggestions as to what to do with it, it has a few trees in there, and lots of brambles, and is very boggy. dose anyone have an idea of what we can use this for or how to transform it?