Garlic -thats grown so quick - ready for planting on the small plot. weve grown garlic before and its so easy and cost effective.

This is a plumb line made with string and bamboo - a great way to plant in a straight line. Makes the plot seem a lot tidier too.

Trevor puts the potatoes to bed - kiss kiss nun nite

Sylvie and Trevor

Hey look at this a picture of us! 2 Sundays ago planting our spuds - the first earlies - they will be ready end of July - we really love it when the evenings are very long and we can have meals on the plot - dig up the spuds eat them within 5 mins with salad from the plot - excellent.

This is the bottom end of the 1/2 plot - Sylvies plot - rare to see Trevor digging here! ( shhsh!! )

Each and every spud was kissed before being put to bed - Good luck to them all

Check out my wellies x x ( Berkshire show I get new pair each time :-)

Luck - from Newbury

This horse shoe

we picked up a couple of years ago from the Berkshire County Show - our favourite day of the year. My nan used to have lucky horse shoes everywhere - the story is you have to keep it up this way to keep the luck in - If you turn it upside down all the luck falls out. The little red shed needs its horse shoe - its ying and yang!

2 Green Sheds and my posh watering can

Whats Begining to Grow

Raspberries - they just pop up every year

Garlic - ready for planting

Lettuce Seeds - in the green house

Sunflower of Peanuts - for the feathered friends

Wild Daffodils - Gardeners world did a piece on wild daffs last week - we arent sure if these are wild or not - but they popped up in front of our compost bin - they look nice but they are in the wrong place I keep treading on them!!
Wow wee - perfect - ready for planting!!

If only it all looked like this!!

Bet you cant guess what this is???

The recycled bench

Finally its fixed!!!! This bench was outside a house on the street we used to live on - its been on the plot for about 14months in two pieces - Trevor kept promising to fix it but needed special long wood screws - then one evening about 2 weeks ago, we planned to meet on the plot after work - and voila there it was all ready sitting on the hardstanding directly outside the little red shed. However the question then is - Do you need a bench on an allotment? - Yes we do - we drink a lot of tea on our plot - in fact so does everyone - we do tend to have a wee community that collects for tea at our plot especially on a Sunday afternoon.

the little red shed gets a makeover

The little red shed was painted by Trevor - it looks amazing! We have a total of 4 sheds on the plot - 2 small, really small - on the 1/2 plot - (they are green not red.) and we inherited one on the road end when we took on the plot but we dont use that one at all - its full of spiders!!!

We gave in and cultivated!

We had ummed and ahhed about cultivating the big plot - but then a few days off with No 1 son over half term and we decided that it was a good idea! We booked it to be delivered on a bright sunny morning and Trevor got the job of running it over the weeds and semi dry soil. Once you got down a bit it was wet soggy and really difficult to manage. Trev took about 4 hours to do it and he needed plenty of tea!! Cultivating is frowned upon in the allotment world as each little weed is cut into many many little pieces - just so they can divide and multiply. We will need to keep it like this now!!