I booked an appointment in at work yesterday. "See you next week then - that's the 6th April".
6th April next week? How did that happen?
We haven't made many visits to the allotment this year in fact when we visited two weeks ago it looked like this,
Oh dear!
We cleared a bit
but didn't make much of an impression.
So as I had a day off today I thought I 'd better get the season under way.
I dug and planted and composted and emptied compost (it was lovely stuff!) and dug some more. I had done some gardening so I had things to plant, chitted parsnips, beetroot plants, broad beans, garlic, onions, shallots and chitted potatoes. Oh and a yellow raspberry another blackcurrent and a thornless blackberry.
I also sowed seeds of radish and spinach. After that little lot it looked like this,
Still plenty of work to be done but at least I have made a start. The old boys enjoyed it enormously they kept coming over and admiring my soil - now they could see it.
I pulled some rhubarb and dug some Jerusalem artichokes - hurrah for first harvests!
Then it was home for a cup of tea and a quick bath before getting the kids from school. A most satisfactory day.
