Allotment digging and planting.

Today was the first day that Helen and I have done any work (apart from the felting of the shed roof which I helped Andy with) on the allotment.

We were given some lettuce and some sweet corn seeds by Helen's dad - it may be a little late for the corn but we thought that we could give it a go. They will either grow into a great crop or not grow at all.


Here are some pictures ...

Andy watering the poppies of the neighbouring allotment (not sure why).

The four canes in the picture (above) show the lines in which we planted the crops. The first two on the left are lettuce. The two smaller canes on the right are the corn.

Andy and Pam watering in the fresh crops - lets hope they grow.

Fresh carrots and a bunch of potatoes found from the small plot that we turned over to make way for the lettuce and sweet corn (if you enlarge this picture it actually looks quite cool with the droplets of water and the light). 

Some tasty looking fruit in there somewhere. They will be nice in a crumble - if you like crumble.

After investigation (a picture message to my mum) these are Victoria plums (above and below) and will be ready towards the end of August (looking forward to making some plum wine with some of these, some crumble for those that like crumble). 

Hope you like what we've done so far. We'll have some cucumber, beetroot, radish, some more lettuce and some spring onions to plan next week.