Sunday Rain

This weekend we spent about 8 hours on the allotment. As we drove up the High Street yesterday we were following a trailer full of manure - we had a feeling we knew where that was going :-)

Look at that lot! It has apparently been standing for 2 years so it's very well rotted. HAHA buys it and plotholders can take what they want for £1 per barrowload - what a bargain.

And look what we found when we opened the greenhouse - 14 little broad bean seedlings have popped up over the week - so we may get twice as many as we thought. I dug the area on Plot3 yesterday where those broad bean plants will go in a couple of weeks. And while I dug that, Jamie dug where the potatoes will be planted.

Yesterday felt decidedly Spring-like with warmth and even a little spot of sunshine. But today it was drizzly and then rainy for the whole afternoon. Initially it was quite good weather for pulling weeds - and I had a lot to pull...

That's where the carrots and french beans are meant to be going. Most of the weeds aren't too bad to pull out but the grass (couch) is the worst. I didn't finish all of it as it got too wet but at least there are signs of bare earth ready and waiting now.

Rhubarb should be the first thing that we'll be harvesting - it's on its way... slowly but surely. Meanwhile I'm still on carrot and leek soup, but, really, that's nearly the last of them....!

 Here are the Foo Fighters for the title track. No video again, but it's a good (apt) song...