Hungerford allotment blog - grow your own, harvesting and vegetarian cooking. Enjoying allotment wildlife, weather and other things that catch my attention.
Enjoying time on the Marsh Lane Allotment site in Hungerford, Berkshire.
A record of successes, failures and a handy reminder for me.
From 2017 each post title brings a song to add a little extra music to the world - enjoy!
Today we visited the plot where Jamie sowed some more broad beans (3rd time lucky?) and all I did was made some coffee :-D The ground was too wet to do anything after the 15mm of rainfall we had overnight.
But yesterday was the 1st of April - it wasn't raining and look! That's the Sun up there...
What? Can't you see it? There it is...
Yesterday, we managed to do some digging during our 3 hour stint on the allotment. Aah, it's good to be back at it.
We were mostly digging out tiny Valerian seedlings which are EVERYWHERE after we decided it was a good idea to grow some last year - it was pretty, but be warned... do not grow it on an allotment!
This is the type of new growth we want to see... our shallots have nearly all emerged.
At least on a rainy Easter weekend I managed to get lots of HAHA administration done - I even updated the website which I've been meaning to do for months (or perhaps a bit longer...).
And I made myself some soup... that's the last parsnip of the year and nearly the last of the leeks, still a few more carrots to go.
I'm including this photo because I like the colour progression.
And today's blog title is Yesterday by The Beatles... Because yesterday we managed some proper allotmenting for a happy change.
That plot (Plot3) certainly has good drainage as there are some very soggy patches on the site. Yes, we just need to make sure we take advantage of any dry days at the moment but they have been few and far between
But you got your lovely rhubarb - I take it that was home-grown? The little fire is our Kelly Kettle - boiling up water for our brew. You have to keep feeding the fire until the water boils so it's rather pleasing!
Your soil looks far more workable than our mud. Good job we cultivated some beds before the last spell of rain. The. Weekend was a write off for us.
ReplyDeleteThat plot (Plot3) certainly has good drainage as there are some very soggy patches on the site. Yes, we just need to make sure we take advantage of any dry days at the moment but they have been few and far between
DeleteGlad you got some digging done. Our ground is too wet for anything. What is that little fire?
ReplyDeleteBut you got your lovely rhubarb - I take it that was home-grown? The little fire is our Kelly Kettle - boiling up water for our brew. You have to keep feeding the fire until the water boils so it's rather pleasing!
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