Sowing seeds

I love this time of year for the lengthening days, the way everything starts quietly and in tiny ways coming to life and the hope and optimism that is involved in sowing seeds. I get most of my seeds from The Real Seed Company, because I love their general ethos, they have a good range […]

12 beds done!

There are 12 beds! They’re not completely finished, and there is a lot of digging to do, but the basic structures are there so we’ve definitely broken the back of what turned out to be a bit of a major undertaking… We had a long day of it today, in mild but grey weather and […]

3 more beds, and spring is in sight

Spent 4 hours on the allotment today, lugging more wood up to the plot, building 3 more raised beds, digging a bed over and sowing some seeds. We’ve done 8 out of 12 beds now – if we get one more done tomorrow morning, we’ll be able to finish all of them next weekend. I […]

Sunshine

There are beautiful blue skies and bright sunshine today. Still cool, but absolutely lovely. Made it up to the plot for about 930am this morning and did a couple of hours of pottering: weeded, levelled and added 3 barrowfuls of leafmould to bed #7 – the last of yesterday’s lovely delivery flattened the paths between […]