Vinny's Allotment Plot

Another emthralling edition of an allotment visitation. I was there about four hours today as the Barre fitness session was cancelled so I had energy to burn.

Started by preparing 'stations' and planting out six courgettes in previously prepared ground. Built a little mound and planted on top of mound to stop the stems rotting.
Also planted out two pumpkins using the same method.

Next I moved on to leek planting the traditional way with the dibber. Had to dibber holes then water them and re-dibber them as soil was so dry and holes kept filling in. Once dibber holes were made I planted out about 50 leeks, trimming the roots a bit to fit hole then filling each hole with water to consolidate roots.

After that it was hand weeding some of my narrow paths with a trowel. Backbreaking work but needed to be done.

Finally I used a spade and scraped my main path and got rid of weeds. Myy brush has fallen to bits so couldn't sweep it but scraped it the best I could.

On a positive note the strawberries have started cropping so I munched a few while working. Watered everything that was looking a bit dry but barrels are getting low now and I want to save my IBC tank water for greenhouse watering when I eventually get it sorted out.

Now I have a clean-ish path the plan is to dump all the used compost that had last years crops in them on the path and mix in some home made compost from the heap along with bagged compost to make a cheap medium for planting into. Thats for another day though!