[Aled]

I've done nothing, but I have ordered a new garden sieve from ebay!
Cheers
Aled

[Flowertot]

The soil is now dry enough so I dug over and weeded the bed where the onion and shallot sets will go. 

[Aled]

I wish it would stop raining for a good few days!
Cheers
Aled

[Robster]

Haven't been to the lotty the last couple of weeks.  Every opportunity I get its either raining or just too wet.  But today I hope to dig up the leeks from one bed and get manure on it ready for potatoes i March.

I'll also be doing my first sowing today as my chillies will be going in the incubator.

Have a great growing year all

[candygold1]

picked a few leeks the other day and sorted out all my seeds but ground still far too wet for any digging. pulled a few of the big weeds out but that was it.

[mjg000]

Monday 1st February 2016

Met 2 guys and a lorry at the allotment site at 07.20 to take delivery of my new shed.  2 hours later it was up and looking very orange.  Next job is to paint it a more subdued colour and then to fill it with lots of the things we still have in storage ( no loft, no garage at home now ).

[chillimummy]

Pulled up some cabbages and sprouts then took off debris netting. 

[snowdrops]

I supervised hubby digging some carrots up & then I picked a good handful of cavelo Nero

[mum51965]

too too too wet *sigh*

[Aled]

Still too wet here as well.
Cheers
Aled

[jaydig]

Same here too!  Ohhhh, the frustration!

[Aled]

Well I have done some ground work! Bought some butternut squash seeds, carrot seeds, and some mixed lettuce leaf salad seeds, which I will grow in a pot. Also got some small pots to bring on some seedlings.
Cheers
Aled

[Christine]

Yesterday I picked leeks, brussels, purple sprouting broccoli and put a lot of household peelings on the compost heap.

Today I went to the newer plot and started to clear the bed where the green manure was planted. It rained so much back over the last three months that the green manure died back (well it should have been dug in back in November). There was an excellent collection of dandelions that had come up from seeds and grown well in the mild winter along with the creeping buttercups. I also moved some very long old roots - could have been nettles once upon a time. Didn't finish the job but it does look better. Also cleared a lot of debris under the brassicas and pulled up the gone over calabrese. Fed the compost heap on the newer plot (but not with the dandelions, docks, buttercups and assorted roots!). Took the netting back to the shed to be stored.

Never take on a dandelion and buttercup patch as a clearing project she says laughing. Mind we have had plenty of kale, calabrese and psb. Have only had it since June so not a lot of time for planting and it was a proper mess. Way to go with it still.

[Flowertot]

Pulled up the last of the leeks, dug over the bed and sowed some Meteor peas in it as an experiment (and a bet on the weather!).

[Jackypam]

Turned out to be a good time to pull the weeds out of the raspberries. Soil is so wet they just made a sucking noise and popped out. Even the thistles and dandelions. Then I sort of stirred the soil a bit with my trowel as the holes filled back up with muddy water.  Hope to finish over the weekend and mulch with compost to sort of dissolve into the soil and work a bit like a sponge to dry it out a bit...