[Manlea1]

Planted my raspberry tree and sowed 45 sweetcorn seeds after leaving them to chit for 2 days,boy they chit fast dont they  :blink:

[plot6b]

Watered watered and watered. Earthing up the spuds was an impossible task. we really need some rain as the soil is bone dry

[Ice]

Finally finished the right hand side of the garden.  It's gone from a barren space full of glass, concrete, rats, bricks, mangled metal, and the thinnest, nastiest, clay filled soil to this..........Ta da.



Now I need to finish the left hand side and build my chickens a des res.

[mumofstig]

They look really smart Ice...you have a lot of growing space there

[n.b83]

Looks great well done

[plot6b]

Looks spot on Ice. The perfect image of what we are all striving for. Happy growing.

[monsta]

[how does so much glass get on an allotment?

Thought it was only my plot, I thought previous occupiers had smashed a greenhouse or something  

mine was covered in glass, hinges, door, bolts thousands of nails and lots of dead rats! 

took a week to dig most of it out and i am still finding things not to mention cutting my fingers all the time! 

[digalotty]

looking good ice 

[Ice]

Thank you all.  Three more large beds going in to the left of the clothes line.  Behind that will be the chickens.  Then a nice lawn, flowers, hot tub, Pimms dispenser, butler, back massager..........no, wait, those last four items were just a fantasy.

[mumofstig]

hot tub, Pimms dispenser, butler, back massager..........no, wait, those last four items were just a fantasy

sounds like agood one to me though  

[Yorkie]

Wow that's absolutely amazing progress Ice - looks fabulous, and just in time for growing season too 

[Ice]

Yes, this season will be good but next season will be great.  I can't say how much I have longed for something like this to grow my veg in.  Nine 8x4 beds and three 4x4 now.  There's still room for more but that would be a little obsessive.

Mind you, you can't eat grass so a lawn is excess to requirements.

[Jamie Butterworth]

They look fantastic Whats growing in that middle closest bed?

[Ice]

That's my herb bed.  I've planted the herbs I brought with me from the old house.  It's the heart of my garden given that I love to cook as well as grow veg.

[Loubs]

All I did was water the plot today. BUT! As OH is away for a week visiting his parents overseas, today for the first time I did find a bus that goes from the front door of where I work right up to the plot (up till now have either had a 25 min walk from home, or gone in the car).

Because obviously I was planning to be driving myself up there this week after work. Until I failed my driving test the other day. 

The bus option is pretty cool tho'.