We've planted stuff!

Yes, how exciting. We planted our first fruit bushes yesterday! We've put in about 10 mystery fruit bushes in along the fence after carefully digging and clearing a lovely bed for them. The digging bit took ages - the roots and stuff in the soil were unbelievable. It wasn't helped by there being a force 10 gale blowing but never the less, we have a fruit bed. However, a bit of a boo to Aldi who didn't label the bushes in the packet so we have no idea what has been planted where. Still a monoculture isn't always a good thing - a mystery is more fun. Here's to scoffing lovely fresh berries in a few months' time.

The Plough

No its not just a beautiful star, often seen in a clear autumnal sky, or even a difficult yoga movement designed to detoxify the liver (more cider anyone?) its also the savior of our allotment. As you can see from our pictures, the plough has done an amazing job and broken up the soil so it just makes it a bit easier to dig and root clear. I know not everyone agrees with this course of action but needs must. Our lottie is mahoosive and I think we needed to have a a bit of a psychological boost. Our plan is to make some 4ft wide beds with paths in between, and cover the beds with weed control fabric, planting through them as we go. We hope that this approach will keep the weeds we have undoubtedly stirred up by ploughing down and still keep the beds nice and productive.

In other news, we have stated to dig by the fence. This area will be our soft fruit beds. We currently have 21 bushes in total. We are going to grow gooseberries, tayberries, raspberries, black currents, red currents, and something else that I have forgotten. We also bought a cherry tree (cheap from Aldi) so we are going to find that a home at some point too.

Anyway, here are some of the latest pictures from the lottie, taken this afternoon, just before the hail started....















Some bad news, unfortunately, Mr Scarecrow didn't make it. I think the ploughman must have driven into him and knocked him down. All is not lost, we will try and resurrect him at somepoint, possibly with the help of small nieces and nephews.















View of next door's lottie, something to aspire to!















Admiring the fine, tilled earth