Vinny's Allotment Plot

Back on site this morning! (Thank goodness as it's chucking it down now!)

Decided to lift a double row of onions and replant area with brassicas. The onions came up easy enough and I decided to beef up the area with compost from the dalek. I struggled carrying a spade full of compost at a time then trying to chop up  compost in dalek to drop down so I could collect it from bottom.

After covering the 2 foot wide bed I then lightly forked the surface and finished up by bashing the lumps with the rake, followed by raking level....ish!
I then planted two staggered rows of what I think are PSB plantlets but they could be cauli's or calabrese as the pigeons decimated the seed packets at the end of rows in seedbed. Theer was a purple tinge to the stems of some so I am assuming they were PSB?
I then rigged up a Heath Robinson tent affair with a lump of debri netting and some wire mesh to hopefully to keep the pigeons off them until they get established. I spent some time munching raspberries and gooseberries to keep me fortified while I was there.

I have rainbow chard in modules at home to go in another onion bed once they get a bit bigger (the chard that is, as the onions are huge considering they are planted close together.)
I am trying to plan ahead for follow on crops as I hate to see bare soil. Looking ahead I also have cauli's and calbrese to plant out, the Spring cabbage has just germinated, I have elephant garlic and will be purchasing various autumn planted onion sets. The broad beans seeds are ready to go in later as well.

As always I finished up by doing a load of hand weeding which is a neverending pain of  job!