[greenasgrass]

Set up seven mini raised beds I intend to use for salad crops and carrots. Replaced a broken pane of glass in one of the greenhouses. Bit more weeding. Had a walk round to have a nosy what was going on on some of the other plots and chatted to a few of the other plot owners. Really enjoyable few hours in the glorious sunshine.

Bit gutted as I found out the secretary has arranged a 20tonne drop of compost for tomorrow and plot holders can help themselves at a cost of £1 a barrow load. I will be stuck in work! Just hope there is some left for me at the weekend  

Not on the plot, but sowed my chilli seeds for this year when I got home after picking my youngest up from school. All in all a satisfying and productive day.

[allot2learn]

at a cost of £1 a barrow load.

That seems a bit expensive. We have just had some 8 ton loads delivered at £30 per load.
We charged the tenants £10 for around 50 barrow loads. Everyone had plenty.

[Plottered]

at a cost of £1 a barrow load.

That seems a bit expensive. We have just had some 8 ton loads delivered at £30 per load.
We charged the tenants £10 for around 50 barrow loads. Everyone had plenty.

where abouts did you get that from please mate. seems a lot cheaper than what ive looked at round the North west.

[flitwickone]

gave the garlic a weed  its there 1st since they went in last year and then gave then a bfb feed
sowed a 15 foot row of dwarf peas will do a second row in about 4 weeks time tidied up in general im off out to back yard to pot on some cabbages etc

and beer time
 

[Plottered]

Shifted a ton of horse muck into a temporary compost bin. Dug a couple of beds over and added some well rotted chicken manure...had lots of cups of tea and chats with other folk and helped one one of the old guys to carry some timber to his plot. now very tired and going to the loo a lot 

[mparveen]

Absolutely fuming

Went to plant some seed trays and ..................................................
found out that the allotment holders were burgled on saturday night/sunday morning.

I was one of the unlucky ones, got no tools to work with now and heard that someone's seeds had been nicked too.

[richy]

filled some more compost bins with well rotted manuar so i can grow my squash out of them this year, added another 4in layer of manuar to the last bed, built some hoop tunnels for my brassicas and 1 for my carrots and had a really good tidy up, oh and i ordered some enviromesh to cover the carrots when they go in.

[jmc1949]

Dug over two of the raised beds and removed more couch grass. Also weeded the couple of rows of garlic and the strawberry patch.  Chatted to a couple of plot holders. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon.

[jrko]

A friend turned up just before I was off to the plot so, having borrowed some boots, off we went to
to the plot.

Brambles were lifted bodily from the soil, bindweed was carefully sifted.  Overall we lifted a trug and black bag of nastiness.  

Also arranged with 2 other allotmenteers to collect organic horse poo on friday - cant wait

[NN2Blue]

Dug over my beds with the overwintering rye grass and tares; soil as clean as a whistle. Warm and pleasant in the spring sunshine. Watched the woodpeckers. 

[Totty]

Scratched my head in trying to work out where i can squeeze some extra room out of the rapidly filling greenhouses.
 The schoolkids had a walk around the village taking pictures of "local landmarks" and when they stopped to take one of our newly finished garden i felt quite proud, Nearly as proud as my 5 year old who was in the class, and let everybody know, "thats my garden"!!

[mattwragg94]

just re-dug a 2m by 3m area. then mowed the lawn. then i set fire to the brambles and now im sat with a glass of cider.

[Ice]

Hired myself a nice young man to do some labouring in the garden for the next three days.   Disassembled the bits of my new greenhouse that were put up wrongly, built and laid the base for it in it's proper place.  He shifted loads of gravel for my pathways which look fab now.

Very worried that I might be building a rather large kite as it's a polycarb greenhouse.

It is good to get things into shape after not growing much at all last year due to circumstance.

[parttimer]

My newly acquired secondhand greenhouse is up and running, I haven't been this excited since I was Twelve and got a new bike! 

[like diggingk]

lovely day today coat off 35c in the greenhouse  

made frame for strawberries bed with netting over it
hoed and racked all the bed that are waiting to have some veg in them
should have don more but it was so nice just sitting there in the sun  

went to a farm that sales greenhouse glass for £1 bargain got 4 2x2ft  
short of money this week wish i could have got more
but very happy as the last glass i got was £5 each