Seed Delivery Finally Arrived

Today finally my seed order arrived, a nice big box full of seeds, seed potatoes, onion sets and garlic bulbs, it’s now going to be fun organising what needs to go where on the plot and when.

I will have to sort my self with some indoor growing trays so that I can begin with some of the seeds and set the potatoes chitting in the garage, although I think I have under estimated the amount of egg boxes required for this amount of spuds.

The order also came with a free book, I know it was part of the set cost, but it was listed as free and that’s good enough for me.

All very exciting for me in my first growing year.

Oh and the book is available via the Allotment Diaries very own book store, The Vegetable & herb Expert.

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Raised Beds Completed

With the fine weather and a bit of spare money in my pocket the last five raised beds were built and installed Saturday.

The day started with an early trip down to Wickes DIY store to collect 30 lengths of Gravel Board, each board is 1.83m long, and luckily I had the help of a friend of mine, who although doesn’t own a huge car, it’s certainly bigger than ours when the seats are folded down.

Well with the wood dropped off at the plot I went home to gather the tools for the day, which include my high quality B&Q value Saw and a collection of nails and hammers.

Back up the plot the work commenced and I now have blisters on my hands from sawing down 4 boards to 1.2m, and sawing the posts for ten beds, four per bed, and then sawing the off cuts into smaller pieces to join the sides together.

With much sawing and hammering I now have the eight raised beds I wanted, four 1.2m x 3.6m and four 1.8m x 3.6m, now though the joy of digging them over and getting some compostmanure into them will begin.

Find of the day, amongst the scrap metals and bits of rock and glass was this very rusty old Hoe end, who knows what else I may find.

Looking forward

Looking forward to the weeked, hopefully if the weather holds I should be able to get upto the plot, I have money for the last of the raised beds, the target number for the plot is eight.

I’m hoping with eight beds I can keep on top of the management of the crops and begin a decent rotation plan, with maybe one plot if not two for permanent crops that don’t require rotation.

Every thing seems to be coming thick and fast now, the time for sowing is fast approaching and I do hope that I get some of it right, the first of my seed order has arrived, mainly the freebies 🙂 and some free Vivaldi potatoes which will need chitting, I don’t want to start chitting though until all the spuds are in though so they all get the same amount of time.

I am becoming a little worried about the trees around the plot though, and I do hope they don’t cast to much of a shadown once we get the summer sun, I am hoping that the sun will pass directly over the plot.

Fingers crossed.