Thursday 4 March 2010

Allotmenteering


With the beautiful weather at the beginning of this week, I felt very spring like and decided to put some work into my part of a shared allottment. It doesnt take a lot, just some compost and seeds (creating the bed is def. the hard part!) Luckily my OH helped out by carrying the manure and compost down there so all that was left was weeding, putting on the compost and planting - to my mind the nice stuff!

I've decided to be ambitious this year as previously I've grown easy things like tomatoes and peas. Now I'm attempting to grow carrots and parsnips aswell as the usual peas, beans etc. I'm also going with beetroot, potatoes, sweetcorn. Watch this space - I'll update my blog with my progress - successes and failures!

Whilst I was there I noticed that there was a group of 3 girls all working on an allotment together, they were having a ball laughing and joking in the sunshine. I thought what a great idea, a good way to hangout with your friends and get organic vegetables at the same time! I just need to find a couple of mates who are happy digging in mud and live relatively near - any takers?!

Spring Clean Challenge


When Liz at violetposy set hares running with the spring cleaning challenge I thought NO WAY, not for me but.. after sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea and a pack of partyrings, I decided that she was right and by breaking it down into bite size chunks I should take up the challenge! Did you see that Liz – I said you were right!

I am herby promising to sort out and clean (yuck) the coat, DIY, charity shop cum dumping area. As you can see it’s a bit of a state! I am also going to get round to decorating it too as its still pink from when we moved in 5 years ago!!

So here is the mess - I'm embarrassed to show you! I’ll endeavour to clean it up and post a spick and span photo when it’s done – I wont wait for the decorated version as that will probably be in another few years!