Every year it happens – you have loads of jobs to do over winter and tons of time to do them. Well, December is busy so we’ll definitely start after Christmas. January is too cold, so we’ll wait. February, well we’ll just give the plot a bit of tidy and then crack on with the jobs. Ah oh well, it’s now almost April and our worthy list of jobs remains mostly untouched!
With that being said we’ve had a great couple of days at the plot. Philippa managed to get in some sneaky midweek plot time and used it well by digging over a patch of ground that had the netting on for the cabbages last year. I cannot complete big jobs like this – I get bored very easily and move onto other jobs, returning to do other bits during the day. I get there eventually, but Pilla managed to do it in one go. Pilla also helped out relaying car park number 2 with the regular gang of volunteers on Saturday whilst I was out on my long run (if you wanted to sponsor me my page is http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/neilwilkinson – thanks!).
On Sunday we got to the plot very early – Pilla had an idea to have breakfast there, so we tucked into a very tasty bacon sandwich and cup of tea outside, food is always better that way! We then got on with a few jobs, Pilla potted on some of the tomato seeds we had germinated inside, they had got very leggy but tomato’s quite like being planted deep, so you can recover leggy seedlings pretty easily! I dug over the last bit of plot that needed it. It’s quite therapeutic – every time you pull a piece of mares tail root out you think “yesss, one less this year!” Hopefully we might be able to borrow Bob’s rotavator at some point coming up to cheat at making our soil as fine as his! I also weeded the asparagus bed. So far we have not taken a single spear home and judging by the paltry state of the plants last year I don’t think we’ll have any this year either.
So spring is definitely here, our fruit trees are only a couple of weeks away from blossoming and we have things growing in the ground. The weather has been beautiful all week, from a running point of view I want the weekend coming up to be cool, slightly damp and overcast. From an allotment point of view I’d like more sun please! One final note Bob has planted his potatoes, as Bob is our official ‘if he’s done it, we should probably do it now’ allotmenter, we’ll probably put those in next weekend!
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