Got up the allotment this morning to some disarray. Some little buggers had been skulking around at some point last week for slow worms and had disturbed various pots and paving slabs - damaging one of my blackcurrant bushes in the process. Little sods.
I spent several hours up the allotment today - but it is depressing. The ground is rock hard. I really need to dig the area where the brassicas were - but the fork wont even go into the soil. I did hand weed an area that was dug in the autumn and sowed some spinach and lettuce leaves. I am still picking purple sprouting and picked a good supply of the forced rhubarb, which had turned a lovely shade of ruby red in last week's sun.
So being unable to do very much, I painted the shed. Considering it is about 7 years old and only cost me £160, it has served me well. But it needed the roof re-felting over Christmas and I decided to treat it to a fresh coat of wood stain. It is no longer orange, but now blue and looks very smart
Well tomorrow we are off to the Norfolk Broads with some of the TVR car club mates, so no further allotment stuff this weekend. Yesterday was my last day at my old job - I start a new one on Monday. Still in landscaping - so hopefully I can still get a good supply of pots and stuff.
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