A good start for the onions

Well, the plastic from the tunnel had blown off, but was still weighted down at one side, so it's not been lost.  Both garlic and onions have started well - the onions have little roots! I weeded the area again, and put the cover away.

Pulled up some parsnips to take down to mum and dads' for Sunday lunch.  Nice!

Over Winter Onions & Garlic

I've finally got round to planting the onion sets and garlic that I bought from the Allotment Association shop a couple of weeks ago.  I've postponed digging up the rest of the potatoes, and cleared the corn and weeds on my onion spot for next year.  Part of my plan for the allotment is to limit bed width to 1.2m wide, to limit my having to compress soil.  This theory is working already!

There's been a couple of nights of frost earlier this week, so I was worried that I'd left the onions a little late.  I found a new cloche tunnel in the shed, so I built that over the onion and garlic.  Hopefully that'll protect them from frost and animals pulling the sets out.  Fingers crossed it doesn't blow away!

Mystery Fruit Bushes Comclusion

Blackberries and Gooseberries.  Good stuff!

Mystery Fruit Bushes

I've got a couple of bushes in the fruit and wild flower section that I'm not sure what they are.  I'm assuming fruit bushes.

This one I'm thinking is gooseberry...

















Not sure about the one below.  It's got a frame over it, which I imagine is for netting.  Redcurrents maybe??

If you have any ideas, please let me know!

1/2 way there...

Spent a few more hours at the allotment this afternoon.  It's amazing how a couple of cold nights have killed off the courgette, squash and runner bean plants.  Good thing I got all of the vegetables off them earlier this week.  I rescued the giant green squash-pumpkin thing today!

I also continued with my potato plot digging mission.  I'm half way there.  I managed to dig a whole row between potato mounds, and found a rhythm!  No potatoes made things much easier!  That means that things should be easier in other beds in the coming weeks.

Planning

I spent some time this morning planning what I'm going to plant at the allotment over the coming year, and where everything is going to go.  It feels good to know what I'm doing!  Also sorted a list of jobs to do, in order of priority.  Once I've got all the potatoes out, I shall have to get started on making way for the over-wintering onions and garlic.

Progress!

An evening's digging

I spent a couple of hours digging again this evening.  Rhythm would be easier to find if I didn't keep chopping potatoes in half, and having to stop to extract them all!