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.
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No evil friends/decisive Six Nations games to distract you... We did want to help out in the allotment when we came! It's not our fault we were hijacked by the beer.
How's your rhubarb? I have 2 stalks with actual leaves on and 3 more pods waiting to burst forth. What's yours doing?
Planting time's a good time of year isn't it. I've got my earliest tatties in over the weekend but I'm late with carrots and parsnips.
Simon
It's certainly good fun, and now it feels like we're actually doing something productive! I'm looking forward to a few months time when we've actually got rows of plants - THEN I'll be happy!
Sian - we're forcing our rhubarb so we've got 5 stalks growing with pathetic little leaves on top (these'll be the sweet ones, hopefully) plus there were a couple of leaf buds which had escaped from our not-quite-wide-enough forcing bucket and were putting out 'real' leaves. We've got a bigger pot now to force these ones too! (Rhubarb Rhum here we come!)
Forced rhubarb is really good to eat raw dipped into caster sugar - it's like a sherbert dip-dab, and fine it is too!
Just to say we wish you well.
We have just cut our second lot of asparagus which we had for lunch today following leek and potatoe soup made with the last of our last years leeks leeks.
I would guess that down here in SW France we are about four weeks ahead of you.
Robin and Ailsa
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