April Update

We’ve been slack taking the camera to the allotment lately – hence the lack of updates really.  However i’ve just got a nice shiny new one from Pilla, so I went to take some picture mid-week (I had to water too, that season has come around quickly).  I’m going to change how I upload pictures too – i used to  have them really small for storage reasons on my server, but i’m going to try and use Flickr for them which should allow much bigger images 🙂

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So, what’s new?  Well whilst Pilla was busy working this week I managed to plant our early potatoes.  I’m planning on doing the rest this week, but it’s pretty hard work digging them in (last year we used Bob’s technique of just using a bulb planter, which is rapid, but our soil is quite compacted and planting them by digging a trench and putting the soil back really breaks it up) .  The potatoes are going in the land where the soil pile was,  so this is really brand new growing space for us.

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The garlic we planting is shooting up and we have quite a bit growing in the greenhouse, although the squash seeds don’t seem to be doing much yet.   The plots are both looking fairly decent now – the cherry tree is in blossom and quite a few of the flowers we planted are starting to bloom.

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 We also have our first strawberry flower of the year and the figs are slowly starting to plump up!

I was just looking through the pictures of the new plot when we got it, we’re very proud of how much we’ve done in the last year or so.  Since we put the greenhouse up the plot certainly looks ‘done’ (I do need to find some glass to finish it off…)

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