Tuesday 3 May 2011

The covers are on


OS signed up for another season of cricket on Friday. Tonight a ground frost is forecast - is it just me but is the start of the cricket season always bad news for the garden?
Anyway, armed with the weather forecast I rushed to the allotment, earthed up the potatoes, covered the courgettes, cloched the lettuce and fleeced the strawberries, and depressed a plot neighbour who had just finished watering. All in a world record time of 27.5 minutes.
I once read a book called " The Half-hour Allotment" (here should you be interested).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Half-hour-Allotment-Royal-Horticultural-Society/dp/0711226059/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1304448700&sr=8-1
Half and hour is for softies...

3 comments:

  1. I've seen that book on the shelf of bookshops before and always thought 'yeah, half an hour about 14 times a week...' ;)

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  2. yep - hahahaha half an hour if you have a hired help to do all the hard work!
    Your plot lots fabulous - very proud xxxxx

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  3. Wish I had had the forethought to cover my stuff...I will definitely be doing it next year!!

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