Sun, seeds and plans for soup!

So warm and sunny today - it really felt like May! Marsh Lane was the busiest we've seen it in weeks - a really active allotment site.

And we weren't just sitting in the sun - well, not the whole time. We managed to get everything done that we intended to, including trimming the fringes of the grass paths and mowing the one between our two plots.

Plot 7

Jamie dug our home-made compost into pea/sweet pea trenches - either side of last year's pea frame. We sowed the following seeds:

• Scarlet Empire runner beans (into root trainers in allotment cloche)
• Cornells Bush Delicata squash (indoor cloche)
• Butterbush F1 squash (indoor cloche)
• Rocky F1 cucumber (indoor cloche)
• Ambassador F1 courgette (indoor cloche)
• Fennel (buried pot in herb plot)
• Par cel (seed tray in allotment cloche)
• Apache salad onions - red ones (directly into onion plot)

Various squashes

Last week at work I had some celeriac and fennel soup - the first time I've had either of those ingredients - and it was so delicious! I decided that I'd grow celeriac but thought I was a bit late deciding to sow the seeds so when I spotted a trayful for £1.49 at Yew Tree Garden Centre I had to buy them! So, I transplanted about a third of the seedlings into modules and they're in the allotment cloche with the rest of our seedlings.

Celeriac seedlings