How time flies when you are busy, it doesn’t take much to eat into time set aside for jobs when something unexpected comes up. For the last two weeks I have managed to keep up with the allotment but only just, a death in the family certainly makes a difference.

What have I done on the plot in this time? The warmer weather has made a lot of improvement in the growth of plants, and weeds, so all the seeds I had sown have all germinated and grown and have made for a lot of transplanting from trays into modules. Then form modules into small pots and many of the earlier plants are in large pots.

The improved weather has meant that the potatoes are nearly all through and earthed up. The old strawberry plants have grown and are full of flower, while the new plants have trebled in size and started to flower – all the flowers have been removed from the new plants to give them time to make stronger plants before fruiting.

The remaining leeks are all out now because they had started to send up seed heads, not bad I was still picking leeks into the second week of May. The two garlic beds are looking good and the comfrey is ready for it’s first cutting. We have been eating asparagus for the past two weeks and it is sending up new spears every day.

Tunnel 2 is filling up with trays of pots on one side while the middle is full of broad beans,peas, beetroot and spring onions. The other side bed is filling up with letttuce ,spinach and french beans and the end bed is full of carrots. Tunnel 1 is nearly ready for the tomatoes and cucumbers.

I have managed to dig the manure in on several beds and have planted out the onion sets from the trays. I have also erected a frame for sprouts on the same bed and yesterday I filled it with four varieties of sprouts.

JOBS FOR THE WEEK

1. Sow more seeds in trays and the ground – done
2. Erect second frame
3. Dig leek beds – done
4. Cut comfrey-done
5. Transplant seedlings – done

WORK DONE THIS WEEK

Sunday

1. water
2. plant out sprouts
3. weed garlic beds
4. weed tunnel 2
5. weed strawberry bed
6. cut comfrey

Monday

1. water
2. cultivate beds weeded

Tuesday

1. Water
2. Dig leek bed
3. Plant lettuce out

Wednesday

1. Water

Thursday

1. Water
2. transplant seedlings from small pots to large ones

Friday

1. Transplant from modules into small pots
2. Water
3. Sow Peas

Saturday

1. Water
2. Prepare bed for brassica frame
3. Transplant from modules into small pots
4. Sow beetroot

CROPS PICKED THIS WEEK

1. Rhubarb
2. Asparagus