Thursday 23 April 2009

New Season


Well, spring is well and truly here and Simon and I have been working quite hard on the allotment. I have take a few pictures so you can see the changes since we first started. I had forgotten how bad it actually was just over a year a go and its quite gratifying to see the changes.

On the left there you can see our mixed fruit bed. We have various currants, goosegogs and somewhat counter-intuitive, blackberries. Why blackberries I hear you cry! Well, our patch of Leicestershire is rather exposed and can get very windy. Blackberries grow well on the site so the hope is that eventually, they will form some wind protection.

In the front bed are early spuds, a row of carrots and a row of parsnips and beetroot. The bed behind has a few last parsnips from the previous season, they are still good eating!

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