Today!

Yes, finally up to date! A nice photo of the plot this weekend. You can see from the photo that the flowers and garlic and doing well at least. (the carpetted part is the neighbouring plot) And you can see the black cover over my chopped bramble area, which I decided to poison this weekend with Root Out. It already seems to be working! I won't be planting that area for a long time (summer earliest, but probably autumn) so am not worried about it.

Today I forked over and weeded half of another length of the main rows area and got in half my calabrese and beetroot. They'll continue into the next half of the row which I'll try and do this week. In order to get my second lot of potatos in I'm thinking of completing digging out a length - making a trench I can build up as they grow. That would mean not having to weed the turned soil so could be an easier option. I can use the soil for something else when I have time to weed it.

After this week I'm on holiday for 3 weeks so just have to leave it to nature for a while.

Drawings from last week!

Still forgetting my camera, but I've been sketching while having breaks. It's SO beautiful out, about 20 degrees last weekend! The flowers are all in bloom, lovely black tulips have all come up, garlic is going well, more digging but now the ground is rock hard.

A peek at the garlic.


One of the black tulips.


And a view over into the back half of the front half, now covered in black sheeting. There's a funny old frame made out of metal bars and then in the bramble I found the remnants of the steel frame from an old shed.

Catch Up: About 6 weeks ago, part II

More catch up photos. :) On the Monday my friend Leila came along to help chop bramble while I got on with digging. Jo (Oakley) popped along later with a lighter and we had a nice bonfire with the bramble! It burned really nicely in the old compost bin. A nice 'safe' holder so that I didn't complete lose it. I was slightly convinced we were going to burn down all of Eltham! So I stood by with bucket at the ready the whole time.

Second length of bed dug:


A couple "sculptures" found in the bramble, now in the flower bed. (These photos are very out of date now, the bed is filled with flowers now!)


The base of the shed is down, took a lot of digging, levelling, sand and paving stones. It'll do anyway.


My new 'tool'. A pram. Can you believe it? ME? With a pram? Haha! Very good for moving bags of sand though.


And another view of the plot with Leila over by the bramble.

Catch Up: About 6 weeks ago

I *have* been down at the allotment, just keep forgetting my camera. A nice Saturday out, started digging my biggest area for veg - weeding out all the couch grass of course. Grrrr... A nice shot of my first bed, the plot so far, and my wee rose bush! It was a beautiful sunny day.