2013 Top 5 Things

As I only grow in the back garden, and space is limited, I'm not sure I can get to 5!! Well, here goes....

1. Strawberries back on form. 17lb from a 4'x4' bed.
2. 5 new tomato varieties successfully grown from seed, with pretty decent yields all round (as long as they all ripen on the window sills!)
3. 40-50 spring onions in Spring from a bargain-bucket onion set I bought last year for 10p and planted in November with very little hope of getting anything.
4. successfully initiated my apple tree espaliers against our fence, with two lovely '+' shapes grown from two sticks!
5. first ever raspberry crop from the canes I planted a couple of years ago - not huge, but not bad

Well... that was easy! A good year then!

1 Enjoying myself
2 Laughing with other allotment holders
3 Everything being a success
4 Getting out in the fresh air
5 And most important it all help so much with my depression
 

1. My little granddaughter, Summer, arrived in August
2. Vases full of flowers every day of Spring and Summer, and still going.
3. Enough tomatoes for pasta sauce the year, (and we do eat a lot), with enough onions and basil to add as well.
4. Bowls and Bowls of raspberries, and still picking.
5. All the pleasure I get from the allotment field, the views, the produce, the friends, the exercise etc., etc.,