It dawned on me this morning that seeing as a new growing season will be upon us before we know it, we've kind of had it easy working on the allotment so far. These first six months have just been about the digging. Ok we managed a small harvest this year, hell we managed to survive on our own grown potatoes for four of those six months! But there hasn't really been any pressure to grow anything.
But with the new year just around the corner, we now need to plan ahead and make sure we plant things at the right time.
It starts getting serious from now on.....well not serious but it will be important to do things at the right time. We sowed some spring cabbage seeds a couple of months too late in the hope of growing them over the winter, but at the moment they are still tiny seedlings. We'll plant them out on the plot but I have a feeling they won't amount to much. Time will tell I guess.
Father Christmas very kindly brought us a new spade and a composter. Thought he would have given us some seeds too but glad that he didn't as I really wanted to pick the varieties ourselves.
Seed potatoes will be available soon. Think we will have a couple of rows of main crop next year and just one of earlies.
So next plan of action will be to plant the spring cabbages out, erect the composter and prepare the bed for the potatoes.
It's been difficult finding the time to fit the allotment in the last week or so and the weather has been quite stormy too, but here's hoping we can get back into a routine in the new year.
Can't wait!
