Getting Started Again

This year we decided that we'd try growing some more things, widen out repatoire, so to speak... i've got an ambition to make a proper bolognaise sauce with ingredients grown soley on the allotment, so that means celery needed to be added to the list amongst other things. We're going to try sweetcorn (3 sister method), courgettes, pumpkin, spinach, turnip and even things like shallots and red onion sets... Hardly the most extravagant you may be thinking, but it's a lot more glamourous than last years offerings!!



Another new addition is the new cold frame, (you can see Bruce checking it for size above!). It's made with a big bookcase that we had at home that was just too dark for the room it was in, a couple of mates said they'd have it, but i'd got my heart set on turning it into a decent cold frame, compared to last years effort. The top is a window i found next to a skip at the bottom of the road one day... I picked it up when i was (drunkenly) walking past it... it was that heavy it nearly did my sholuder in! Fortunately, they both fitted each other perfectly so i just rested the windowframe on top, no nails or anything. I filled the last gap in with a big piece of wood i'd got lying around, waiting to become useful, that just so happened to fit perfectly too!


Bruce checks our efforts to clean the glass...


Signs that spring is on the way start to appear in the bottom of the fence... It's good to see some ladybirds around all ready... ready to get to work for me as pest controllers