Saturday 23rd March
Volunteers - Liz, Liz's grandad, Liz's mum, Liz's brother Michael, Katie, Katie's mum Sue, Bill, Dwayne, Angharad, Ben, Conor & John.....and Gerry popped by to deliver the poly tunnel instructions and some quality street tins!
Today was probably the coldest on record for our visits to the allotment, but somehow it is also the most volunteers we have had in one day!
Dwayne has invented a new technique of spreading the weight whilst weeding - interesting method!
Ben and Connor get their priorities right as they arrive on site!
It was Baltic on site today and the ground was extremely saturated from all the rain in the week. We decided to huddle near the shed and drink as much tea as possible. We flattened the area outside the shed, laid mesh and covered with woodchipings.
This is conner - our youngest, but by no means laziest, volunteer!
Liz's Grandad has kindly donated two large water butts. We have mounted them on concrete slabs so we can get a watering can under the taps at the bottom.
Introducing our beautiful new lavatory!! The shed is now a kitchen/bathroom/lounge/garage - all we need is a camp bed and Dwyane will be ready to move in.
Sunday 24th March
Volunteers - Liz, Dwayne, Katie & Michael
Again....another freezing day. We laid the path on the left hand side of the plot and did some general tidying up and drank some tea!
The seedlings which were planted on the 19/02/13 were ready to plant out into bigger pots. The ones you can see here are Beef Tomatoes!
I made mini green houses from old plastic bottles. Everything we have used to grow these seeds is either recycled or has been sourced for free.
You can see the seed is still hanging on to this Pepper seedling! Its amazing how something can grow from a tiny seed!
My house is rapidly getting taken over by seedlings.
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