Catching up

9 weeks later
Originally uploaded by Marj Joly.

It's been a while since I wrote in this blog. Too long really. But the truth is I just didn;t feel like it. Moving plots was a traumatic experience. It took us about 4 weeks to remove the old shed, clear the junk off the plot before we could start work. Most of the digging has been done from early March. Once we cleared the rubbish the ground was too wet to dig. It also took a while to finally remove everything we wanted from the old plot, and luckily most of the things we have moved seem to be surviving. But the Fig and the Christmas tree are looking a bit peaky.

I was very sad to lose our old allotment, and it was as though six months of not being able to garden have all come out over the last few weeks.

But as you can see once we started digging, we didnt stop! About three quarters of the plot is now dug over, and half of that is planted. The rest has a great crop of Japanese Knotweed growing which will be treated later this year.

So apart from getting my thesis written I am obsessed completely with getting the most out of this plot - with thanks to Gordon, Mike, Joyce and Bruce for their help.