A busy April, lots to do;
and the project is now 1 year old!!
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| Our one year old pizza lunch in the Rosendale Allotments Community Building |
The main jobs were;
Prepare the ground for planting, digging over to let air and water in and to break up the soil where it had become compacted.
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| The eternal enemy... couch grass! |
This job at times was hard work - mostly due to a majority of the site being clay, which hardens in the sun and becomes compacted and slippery in the rain, but seeing the result after the dig and a good rake was worth the effort...
We also had a
manure delivery! So we spread that on the dug ground in order for the worms to drag it down and to dig it in in a few weeks...
We also
built some shelves for some newly planted seeds;
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| Shelves in use with plants! |
We also planted our potato crop...
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| Preparing the trenches for the potato planting... |
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| Placing the potatoes in eyes up... |
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| First two potato rows go into the soil... |
And lastly,
planting some herbs to enhance our herb garden, we purchased some sage to go with a rescued thyme plant abandoned last year by the former plot holders...
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| The sage plant, roots watered ready for planting... |
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| It's in! Sage is planted with the other herbs... |
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| Rescued thyme plant, going to ground... |
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| Herb garden as of April 2013 |
Now the warmer weather comes our way, lots to do in May...
