Sunday 31st December
I started to think about planning next years crops and made some
diagrams on the computer for each half plot. I have printed these off
on 4 sheets of A4 landscape paper.
Saturday 30th December
Mum and dad went to the allotments. Dad weeded on the bottom plot near
the leaks and mum weeded under the black matting on the top plot near
the car parking area.
Thursday 28th December
Mum and dad went down and changed around most of the clips on the
greenhouses except for the ones up by the ridge.
Saturday 23rd December
Me, mum and dad went down in the car to get some vegetables for
Christmas dinner and for our tea tonight. We got parsnips, swede,
turnip and sprouts. We looked at both greenhouses and the clips on the
glass are all the wrong way around! Lucky for us that more glass hasn't
fallen out in the extremely windy weather that we have had.
Tuesday 19th December
After a very hectic time lately we finally got to the allotment
together (me, mum and dad). We harvested some leeks, a couple of
turnips and parsnips. We noticed that some glass had blown out of the
newest (to us, but oldest overall) greenhouse. We had to replace a
2'x2' pane and 15.5”x2' pane. The 15.5 could probably have been cut to
15.75” really, but it will have to do now that we have had it done!
Very cold, wet and muddy at the allotment... but it is December!
Saturday 9th December
Mum and dad took fleece off one of the rows of lettuce and harvested
salad leaf, leeks, swede and turnips.
Monday 4th December
Mum and dad weeded on the top and bottom plots and harvested parsnip,
turnip and leek.
Sunday 3rd December
Mum and dad went down and harvested leeks.
Saturday 2nd December
I went down for an hour before lunch. I lifted all the fresh
compostables from the top of the two compost bins that we put lids on a
couple of weeks ago. I then moved all the well rotted compost into one
half so that it can finish rotting down and replaced all the partially
rotted material into the other bin. This way we should get some decent
compost ready to use for next year. I also weeded for about 15 minutes
on the bottom plot.