Last Saturday

Got down the Allotment last Saturday for an hour just to tidy up. Then I got a call on the mobile from one of my daughters friends' Dad asking if could I take some hourse manure off his hands. Yeah!......so up early on Sunday and over to his house. When I got there his trailer was full and sat on the drive waiting to be hooked up to my motor. Rob was away for the morning and had prepared everthing for me. What a gent.

When I go to the allotment, about 5 miles away, I remember I had forgotten how to control a trailer in reverse. Once I got the thing straight I was able to get it down the lane to tip it on the end of my plot. Saturday's tidy up paid off because I had a clean bin spare to pile the manure in to. My bins are just pallets nailed together for compost or anything else.

I was the envy of the plots holders. I knew Rob had another couple of loads available so I got a second load for Ian.

Now all I have to do dig the manure in. I have to make time to plant the garlic and sow the summer Cabbage and early Cauli's. The other evening I spread out all my seed packets on the floor of the living room and organised them by rotation planting, then by order of sowing. My daughter came in and asked if I was opening a seed business. It did look like a lot of packets. I counted them up, 48 packets in all. That does not include the items that are still on order such as seed Potatoes and Onion sets. So in all I have something like 60 odd varitities to grow with the remainder of seeds from last year. I have decided to grow Jeruslem Artichokes but only as a wind break. I tried eating them but I did not enjoy the experience. They are better as wind protection.

Some time should be freed up soon when the shed at home is finished