[SkipRat]

Had a lazy morning chillaxin in the sun, then this afternoon a few beers and off to watch Hull City V Norwich, 

[mumofstig]

I laid some weed fabric down over the rough grass under the lavender hedge, before it gets too weedy and horrible, like last year.

Raked a small bed over, and checked if the peas were up...no sign yet Sowed a few greyhound cabbage in the greenhouse.

Starting on the garden beds this afternoon

[Christo]

Such a beautiful day. Sowed my first salads today. Felt so nice to be getting back into the swing. Heading to the allotment later to get my onions in. Might wait a bit before putting the potatoes in. Still a bit of a risk of frost down here. Happy days. 

[samfan]

Visited my plot for the first time to do some work today.  There is a big soil mountain on it, so I've made inroads to getting rid of that.

I rotorvated it as well, on the advice of other plotholders (round the soil mound), so once that is totally away, I'll do it again.

It will take a long time to get things the way I want them, but I'll get there. 

[missmenace]

This morning I assembled a cloche/coldframe type thing that I had liberated from my parents and sowed some french marigold and poached egg plant seeds that I plan to plant around the edges of my slab path (so that it looks like the gaps were intentional ).

Then I mostly sat and drank coffee and enjoyed the sun on my face.

[Rich]

Heard the distinctive chug of the dumper truck making its way to the allotments so i changed into my allotmenteering outfit (old band t-shirt, boots and jogging bottoms) and bowled on over to the plot. I must have heard the dumper leaving as i arrived to find a ton of horse muck and no sign of the guy, hopefully i'll catch up with him to settle up tomorrow.
So after moving a ton of manure i continued where i left off yesterday, weeding and digging and digging and weeding anon etc.

[WhiteWolf]

We also spent our first official day at the Lotty today, actually doing stuff and not just standing there thinking, "What have we done" 

Dug over a 12' x 20' patch (we will pay for that later) and raked over a second area again 12' x 20'.

Still so much to do, but we know to take it very steady and build up to things.

To put things into perspective, this is the same size as our back garden 

The Wolfies
(As I wasn't doing this on my own  )

[dexyblue]

more weeding along the perimiter,sowed some Marigolds, nasturtians and cucumber today.
Had a coffee and sat with the sun on my face 

[Malturn]

More digging and pulling out miles of MARESTAIL
Malcolm

[suziet88]

What a lovely, lovely day.  Only popped down to lottie for half an hour but managed to plant some broad beans which were getting too big for their loo tubes in the conservatory and then put some fleece over another bed ready for some early planting soon.

[weirdsowing]

I weeded the raised beds containing the over wintered onions, garlic, spinach and cabbages. Burnt the branches from the trees my husband pruned. Planning to cut some leaves from the spinach in the week  this will be the first veg we have harvested from our plot.

[sachkrimbo]

Mowed the lawn and saved grass cuttings for mulch. Put dried tea and coffee around blueberries.  Mulched blueberries, peach tree and grape vine with some of said grass cuttings.  Poured over propogators for at least 30 minutes willing the seeds to germinate and up shoot 4 sweetcorn    resisted sowing potato seeds cos of continuing frosts!

[billathome65]

Diverted the bath and bathroom sink drain pipes directly to the grid and diverted the drain pipe into a large Glass recycling bin that was spare Put a tap on it and an overflow just in case

Baught another blackberry and some Raspberry canes and planted them where the others had died or I think they died  but I just moved them to an area that if they do regain some umph they will not be in the way.

Planted out the strawberry runner I bought the other day not covered it fingers crossed the frost don't come back.

Dug in the ash from the bonfire I had the other day and will hopefully get some of the veg seeds in tomorrow before I go back to work tomorrow evening

Anyway all jobs done now fingers crossed that the veg do OK for my first time 

[mashbintater]

Planted 6 Kerr's Pink I was given & 16 Maris Peers yesterday. Planted a further 26  Maris Peers, 43 Pentland Javelin & 4 Ulster Prince (I was given to try) today 

[Gandan57]

First time on the plot today for nine days and things are certainly moving!

First sowing of broad beans are up, as are carrots under cloches and onion sets and shallots have grown an inch or two.

I`d previously put in two rows of early spuds and today I took out a trench between the rows, using the soil to earth up the potatoes. Then I filled the trench with some of the decaying autumn leaves I`d heaped up last year( now full of worms). On top of the leaves I heaped up barrow loads of heating up fresh horse manure thats brought onto the allotments by local stables.