Busy bees

Well, we arrived at the plot bright and early this morning (we were there by 9am... on a Sunday!! Do we have no sense?) to find a number on the shed! Seems like the new secretary Louise is getting things sorted out in preparation for the spring when (hopefully) there'll be lots of new people wanting allotments.

We were busy today. Adam started building a cold frame so we can harden off seedlings, but in actual fact had to spend most of his time ripping apart an old pallet to get at the wood. They're surprisingly hardy, those pallets. But he's got three of the four sides built so it's nearly done.

I got on with planting our Early potatoes, Home Guard, which had chitted nicely at home in the living room. We've now got 5 rows - this was the first one, which I remembered to take a picture of before I covered them with earth. (Makes for a less interesting picture, covering things with earth.)

Then I sowed three rows of carrots and one row of parsnips, and covered them with a fleece to keep the chill off. We'll do another row of each in a month or so, on the other half of the root veg bed, and hopefully will be able to get three sowings of carrots this season. Yum!!!

The carrots and parsnips are under the white fleece on the left, and the potatoes are in the 4th bed back on the right.