Git to the plot for 1030am, rotovated the new plot's greenhouse, then applied chicken poo pellets, growmore, bloodfishandbone, and then a generous dressing of 2 1/2 yr old well rotted pony poo from the front compost bed on the new plot! After giving it a good turnover I then planted 8 toms, 2 chillies, 4 peppers, 4 french marigolds and a marketmore cucumber in there, so hopefully it will do as well as the greenhouse on our older plot is doing!
Did a bit of hoeing, then it was time for the Allotment Societies AGM, so went down and joined in. It was a good meeting, with quite a few good ideas coming forth, and it was also decided that we form an allotment committee, which I found myself nominated to become a part of! (Thankfully I was able to persuade them to include me as a non executive committee member as I work full time, but I do have a feeling they have already earmarked me for fund raising duties! I did offer to do anything website related, but as most of the committee are not terribly computer literate, they declined for the moment!)
After that we had a BBQ, with plenty of red wine, so not a lot more work was done, but an enjoyable afternoon (if a little chilly in the wind!)
Mr D made it to the plot for 520pm, and we then had to wait for his workmate to arrive for his set of keys (he's taking over our half plot and is ok for us to keep our onions and spuds in it until they are ready to harvest, so we're going to split the harvest with him!)
I'm back to work tomorrow, but Mr D is going to the plot til 3pm when he has to leave to get ready to go to work, he's hoping to finish clearing another of the beds on the new plot and finish planting out the onions from seed, and perhaps dig another bed ready for planting later in the week! |