4 June 2016 - Dismantling A Greenhouse

Friends had recently moved into a new house and didn't want their greenhouse - did we want it? YES PLEASE!

Taking it to pieces proved "quite" easy....everyone mucked in and it took about four hours.

The big question will be....

How do you get it back together again?

Anyone?

2 June 2016 - First Signs Of Life!

How exciting to spot the first signs of life on your first allotment!

Both varieties of potato were making themselves at home.

Little Gem lettuce sewn in the spare parts of the strawberry bed were going great guns.

Check the neat rows!

And the Little Gem next to the sweetcorn was also saying hello.

22 May 2016 - Planting Sweetcorn & Peas

Late May and it was slightly late to be planting out our sweetcorn seedlings.

They were tiny but Sam is such a fan of sweetcorn - we decided that if we could get even one cob to eat it would be worth doing.

Ruth's curly-wurly pea machines also got installed.

Ruth, Sam and Jacob did a good job with the awkward structures.

And by the end of the day we were quite pleased with our first two weeks' work....

22 May 2016 - Installing Strawberry Box

Next job was to take the wooden box we're recycling as a strawberry bed to the allotment. It kinda filled the wheelbarrow, and then some.

Victorian values ruled and we set the boys to work....

Can't have been too bad though, they still found time for some laughs.

And the occasional breather.

Get back to work you lazy lumps!

Finally in position, the boys could feel rightly proud of their efforts.

17 May 2016 - First Potatoes Planted

Nine days after taking over we had cleared enough space to plant some potatoes - King Edward and Maris Piper.

A happy day indeed. The plan had been to get some things - any things - growing to get the boys interested.

It was obviously all too much for one member of the team....

8 May 2016 - Plot 13D Is Taken Over

In May 2016 we signed on the dotted line and inherited this....

Abandoned for a year, but in not "too" bad condition, considering.

There were some big inhabitants that we needed to evict as soon as possible.

 

The only cure for a wild allotment is hard work.

So we dived straight in and got to work....

A few tough sessions later and we could see some real progress happening. And so it began!