Vinny's Allotment Plot

The rain we were promised didn't arrive so I had to go and give some water to plants that were dying from drought.

While I was there I dug over a bed that had leeks in it, covered it with cardboard then a bag of compost. After a good watering I eventually got round to sowing main-crop carrots. I am probably a bit late but we shall see.

I also sowed three short rows of rasish China Rose after raking the soil in the bed that had carrots in last year.

I was pleased to see my French beans have had a good germination percentage where I sowed thenm through cardboard compost and covered with grass cuttings for moisture retention.

I always like to do a bit of weeding before leaving the plot and tonight it was the turn of the diagonal paths which got a good hoe-ing. I left the weeds dry up then will rake them up and use them in the compost heap. At home I got a dumpy bag of gravel for a project I was doing and intend to use the empty dumpy bag with a post at each corner as an extra compost heap.