My garden: A Pond on my allotment!

My garden: A Pond on my allotment!: Today I added a pond to my allotment.  There is a vast field of allotments containing mainly bare earth and vegetables but no one seems to...

My garden: A Pond on my allotment!

My garden: A Pond on my allotment!: Today I added a pond to my allotment.  There is a vast field of allotments containing mainly bare earth and vegetables but no one seems to...

A Pond on my allotment!

Today I added a pond to my allotment.  There is a vast field of allotments containing mainly bare earth and vegetables but no one seems to have supplied the obvious, a pond for the wildlife to drink from.  The insects that is attracted by a pond help enormously with the welfare of the plants.  Well I have changed things and now I hope many of the others will follow my lead.  Soon I will get some plants planted around it.  Once the water has aged a little I will add the watercress that I bought at the weekend.  Soon I will be enjoying egg and watercress sandwiches!

Last week I popped down and sowed some radish and beetroot and spring and welsh onions in the ground I prepared. I have not had success with any of theses in my garden and neither has my friend who lives the other side of town. Maybe a sunny site will allow these veg to flourish.  We shall see.





The rhubarb has grown even more and is very nearly ready for harvest. It is amazing how quickly it has grown especially as it has only been 6 weeks since I first got my allotment and there was barely a sign of it then.

The potatoes which I found on my plot are very tasty.  They are a firm creamy potato with lots of taste.  Lovely.

 My raspberries are growing well and every time I go to the allotment I have been trowelling the soil around them to keep the ground weed free.

Hopefully soon I will plant some of the flower plants I have been raising from seed to attract pollinating insects to my plot.

Back in my green house at home I have broccoli, and beetroot seedlings growing and peas nearly ready to plant out.

Spring time in the garden is busy busy busy!

I've actually planted something!

Today  I got the first bit of ground that I had dug over previously in my allotment, forked through, de-weeded, raked and I even planted something!

 I had previously sown some onions from seed and they had made onion sets last year. They have been growing nicely  in seed trays and I planted out in the newly prepared ground where I found the potatoes last time I dug there. It is a really sunny site so hopefully they will grow a lot better in my allotment than they had in my shaded garden.

 My inherited rhubarb is growing great guns in the sunshine.  Hopefully in a couple of weeks we shall be able to sample some. Every time I go down the allotment I weed over the ground around the plants. No doubt it will take many years to get rid of all the weeds busily growing around them.

While I was at the allotment today I was given a wheel barrow that was going spare!  It was really nice to be offered it.  There is a nice community spirit there.  I had to lock it to my compost heap though because people get in and acquire things if left around.  I left my watering can there too to save me having to remember it next time.

I think very soon I am going to have to get myself a shed to put all my tools etc in.  There is only so much I can lock to my compost heap!!

Digging and sowing and new shoots

The weather has be wonderful today. It has been 10c and sunny for the third day in a row!!  After the long long winter this year it really has been nice to be out. I spent the whole afternoon digging the rhubarb bed on my allotment. I at last have managed to get rid of the mass of couch grass straggling the rhubarb plants.  With the recent dry weather the ground has dried and I was even able to rake it afterwards!














I also recovered the ground that I am leaving uncultivated as the wind has blown the flimsey plastic off.  This time I have used the heavier woven plastic that I had but remembered the scissors to cut it this time!  I have also covered it with clods of earth to hold it down.  Hopefully it will stay in place this time.

I decided where to put my shed today and I also covered that area in the remaining plastic to kill the weeds whilst I get the shed ordered.

I found the new shoots on the raspberry plants just coming through.  I'm looking forward to tasting them in the months to come.






When I got home I sowed my flowering plants in line with the moon.  I have sowed some sweetpeas called Gwendoline, Autumn Broccoli, a white cosmos called Purity, tagetes called Golden gem and Monarda Bergamo - a new on for me it has dark pink flowers on long stems and is attractive to butterflies and bees.