Allotment planting season

Our neighbours have been busy planting out potatoes and carrots and you name it … it’s always lovely to see the rows of seed, carefully inspected on a daily basis to check if ‘anything’s coming up’ and the excitement – especially in new allotment holders – when something actually does.

There’s been an awful lot of digging going on this week, as the weather has been really suitable for the first time in about a fortnight, so just about everybody at our end of the site has been turning over the soil, which makes the starlings very happy indeed. Greenhouses have gone from empty to full in a single weekend too, which is always a good sign. We have sweet peas and peas, tomatoes, broccoli, leeks, dahlias and herbs underway in ours.

But this bed is a bit grim to my eyes. I’m all in favour of raised beds but this on looks like a coffin to me … kiss of death to anything planted in it, perhaps?

Labels: allotment-planting, allotment-seed-bed