The Greenfingers Club picked their first crops this week - spring cabbage and spinach - and also took some radishes from elsewhere on the allotment to take back to school.
It was a beautiful afternoon on Wednesday and a pleasant change to be enjoying the sunshine and actually feeling a little too hot while working. After a bit of ground preparation and removing most of the weeds, we sowed the wildflower meadow near the willow dome, using sand at the same time so we could track where we'd already thrown the seeds!
I also spent some time tying in the hops to the wire, and adding a few more wires where the plants were too far away from the existing ones, which took some time and resulted in a lot of stinging, as the hop leaves look amazingly like nettles and vice-versa.
Ian dropped into the allotment on Thursday to start making benches, which is great as we're very much a work space at the moment, with nowhere for people to just come along and sit and chat, which is a vital part of the garden.
We also dug up some foxgloves from up the lane to add to our nectar bar, which was an alarming trip back down for Ian who had bees buzzzing in and out of the flowers and around his ears as he carried them :)
It was an early start for the workmen on the allotment today to compact the path a bit more as it's been becoming more of a liability lately as the larger stones were all coming up and causing a serious trip hazard. There's still some larger stones around the edges, but it looks a lot better and I think it will help get more people on the site safely.
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And Tasty they were too
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