[Flowertot]

Well, what a lovely sunny day! Everyone was out on our allotments today and the water was turned back on  . Managed to get hubby down there for once  plus the 2 smaller helpers  and got the potatoes and rhubarb planted plus some digging/weeding done and 2 Enviromesh cages put up - 1 to stop the onion fly getting to my onions/shallots and 1 to stop the (yet to be sown) carrots and parsnips from being attacked by carrot fly. Fingers crossed...

[Aled]

Right i really had a go at it on Sunday. Dug the plot over (single dig trench method) added 2 wheelbarrows full of my home brew compost, 3 barrows of horse manure, and 1 bucket of chicken pellet manure left over from last year. Will leave to settle for a week or so before getting the rotovator out.
It was a lovely spring day yesterday, and i've burnt my bald patch, still nice to see the sun out!
Cheers
Aled

[brokenglass]

Planted the Shallots and Onion sets.      Planted 10 Casablanca Spuds, anyone know if they taste as good as their reputation suggests,  in flower buckets in the greenhouse.   Prepared another two beds. maybe get spuds in the ground next weekend.   

[Hampshire Hog]

Planted out broad bean plants under a net cloche also sowed a couple more rows in the bed.
Tested soil in my bed for Calabrese with a Ph test came up at 7.00 IE neutral so think I will hold off the lime and plant later this week. Prepared bed by trampling it to firm it up then sprinkled some grow more and a few slug pellets to protect in advance of planting under a cover to ward off pesky pigeons!!

Cheers HH

[Yana]

A big fat nothing and won't be for the next two weeks as on jury service.
But will catch up with seeds instead as can do that when I get home?

[teamspotty]

Yet more digging....

[teamspotty]

Yet even more digging....till the hailstorm where upon the woofer wanted to go home, I had cold feet, it was extremely muddy and the bobbos would have wanted to be brought into to their stables.

[snowdrops]

Planted the onion sets, swoed the to be brassica bed,harvested a few bits.

[Hampshire Hog]

Built cage for brassica protection. Put out mouse traps by broad bean seedlings ( bad damage last year)
Quick weed of other beds
Came back home just before the heavens opened

Cheers HH

[Hampshire Hog]

Planted some second early and early spuds. Weather forecast as wet and warm for the next few days so thought I would get them in whilst weather allows. Also decided to sprinkle lime on my Calabrese bed ready to plant some time next week. Now time for snooze I think!!

Cheers HH

[Elm street]

Installed the "Munty frame" for the climbing beans next month, dug and filled the bean trench and cleared the area under the fruit trees ready for weed suppressing fabric topped by bark chippings!

[Annen]

Not strictly the plot as I was doing the garden:

• scarified the lawn (patch of greenish stuff) Phew! that is really hard work!
• fed the rose bushes
• growmore-d the rest of the garden and the tree paeony.

[teamspotty]

Digging...

Gifted my over purchase of tayberry bushes to neighbour.

[snowdrops]

More swoeing,hubby arrived to help & rotovated the potato bed & the roots bed,relaid the slabs between me & my new plot neighbour,then we went back after lunch & he dug the bit that's never been dug, built me a bonfire ready for tomorrow, whilst I tidied up, prepared the new soft fruit area,made tea, weeded the raspberries,& bulb patches, harvested the leeks & beetroot I found

[Flowertot]

Sowed broad beans, tomatoes and garlic chives