Vinny's Allotment Plot

Sneaked away from my 'carer' duties for 1.25  hours today to lay cardboard on some paths and sprinkle 4 bags of wood chip over it. Not nearly enough wood chip but hopefully enough to keep the cardboard from blowing away until I get some more put on.. Paths are 14 inches wide but I couldn't be arrised to cut all cardboard to 14 inches so it looks a bit messy for my liking. Maybe I will attack it with a pair of scissors when I get some more wood chip added? or possibly straighten up the edges by using compost along bed edges?

Piccies are of my five prepared beds on the left side of allotment which will have dwarf french beans, Broad beans and red torpedo onions in the smaller beds and courgettes and some other cucurbit in the larger beds. The only beds then left to plant on that side will be the long fence bed and the very bottom bed (yet to prepare which will have tatties in it.) Not sure what to put in long bed yet?

Forgot to mention that all top five beds have followed the Charles Dowding pactice of adding a couple of layers of cardboard followed by a layer of compost. We shall see how this works out at the end of season.