It has been dry all week and the fine Spring weather this weekend made for a busy and sociable weekend at the allotments.
Our plot is beginning to look in better shape after the neglect of last year. We carried on with digging where we had previously covered the soil and moved the mypex to cover other areas. The ground had dried out quite well so the digging is getting easier.
We planted out a few more cabbage plants under the netting, and broad bean seeds in the gaps between plants sown last Autumn.
Where we have prepared beds we planted garlic and shallots. We have always had a year's supply of garlic since we took on the plot. However we usually plant the cloves in later Autumn but like most tasks on the plot we didn't get around to this last year. We planted out a mixture of sprouted garlic (Wight) that was grown in modules at home over the past six weeks or so, and the bulbs that we bought at the allotment shop recently. It will be interesting to compare the progress of both. We accidentally left some garlic in the ground last year. This has sprouted and is growing well in clumps. We will leave it to grow and harvest the delicious green stems later on.
We bought various brassica seeds to plant at home for transplanting later on.
