I'm really sorry if rain spoilt your bank holiday, or if you've had more rain recently than you know what to do with, but I spent 3 hours on my allotment this morning, trying to break up what seemed like concrete blocks. We had a downpour (the first for weeks, it seems) this afternoon so I popped back this evening and broke up all the lumps in a jiffy. Lovely!
My 2 biggest boys went to see Spiderman this afternoon (they thought it was about half an hour too long) leaving me and little one to play footie in the living room, clean the house and make Sunday Dinner for us and my sisters' family, so we weren't really disturbed by the rain.
The allotment has SO much to do on it - I've spent about 7 hours there sorting out my 'beans bed' and digging another area for parsnips and carrots. True to form I think the first sowing of parsnips have failed, although carrots are doing better under the polytunnel.
The childrens beds are a bit weedy as well, so they got sorted out, with Mare's Tail duly dug out/hoed off. There's be a lot of that this summer.
Because of the rain I could pile some more earth on my spuds as well - as the earth between the rows had been too hard to pile up on them.
I've just got to dig the brassica bed, cougettes/pumpkin bed, Tomato bed and make sure the area for cabbages/caulis is OK to plant them out in a few weeks. And then I have to find some space for all the winter veg & onions I have growing slowly but surely in the greenhouse.
A couple of weeks ago I dug in a green manure I had planted over the winter. I want to put sweetcorn/aubergine and maybe try a cucumber in this area, so I hope it has rotted down. I've never planted green manure before so we'll see how it goes.
My husband thinks I'm spending too much time there. There is loads and loads to do at this time of year and I did take on an extra bit next door that takes a lot of time, but it is wonderfully peaceful and a definite unwind zone.
Back to the trials and tribulations of the new Astro tomorrow.
Have a good week.
