spotted this weird garden on my ride to work the other day. This person has a strange idea about what gardening is. Its more of a toy graveyard.

Saw this amazing stile whilst exploring the bluebell  woods. Hope it makes sense.

Here is my son miller up the medlar tree in our local park. I must find some good recipes for  medlars this year. They were not that good in my home made chutney.

We soundly at some weekend sunshine but I was too busy to get down to the allotment. Made a small sort of shed in my back garden on saturday as my girlfriend is taking over tree main shed and converting it into a printing studio. And on sunday went to for a long walk round our local bluebell woods just in time before they all either away. Maybe some allotment news next weekend.

Our old rotting wheel barrow Is all ready to function as our mobile bbq. Just waiting for the weather to short itself out then it will be hot sausage lunches on the plot.

The red onions are growing well. i have not grown these before but they were given to us so – waste not want not. We placed a netting cage over the top for the early stages to prevent the blackbirds from pulling them out. That seems to have done the trick.

3 weeks of constant rain and the grass areas of our plot are going wild – grass as tall a my knees and dandelions galore. Luckily Miller is a dab hand with the shears. The grass areas give us somewhere to sit for breaks and lunches/coffee in the summer months when we spend long days at the plot but blimey the grass needs more work than the veg beds and it keeps trying to form big clumps. Not quite the flat meadow I had in mind.

We have left a row of sorrel from last year in the middle of one of our beds and I have planted some small tomato plants to the far side and any rogue potato plants that appear on the plot anywhere have been moved to the foreground here. we don’t actually want to grow many potatoes as we hardly ever eat them but its a shame to throw the plants when they have persevered so well.
We must have dug our pulled out about 40 last year but still they are trying to come through in the middle of everything else.

Finally harvested the last of the people sprouting brocolli so we pulled our the plants and opened out the last section of the central path. we now have a handy central path running all the way down the centre of the plot. This has ben a bit of a bone of contention but now finally sorted.this should make things much easier for the wheel barrow.

Got a couple of hours without rain over the weekend to plant out my various courgettes. Planted 3 regular courgettes, 3 summer squashes and 2 other round summer squashes. Placed each one in a wooden frame like a yard bed which has space to step between. I am assuming that these will spread all over the place so I have given them plenty of room each. Bring on the courgette glut!