Week 4

It's now week four and we have the following growing:

• six tomato plants (with actual tomatoes on them!)
• two chillies
• five broccoli plants
• five purple sprouting broccoli plants
• three Glaskin's Perpetual Rhubarb plants (hmmm, looking forward to rhubarb crumble!)
• lots of leeks - kindly donated by a fellow allotmenteer who had too many for his plot (thank you!)

And still to plant out:

• five savoy cabbages
• five primo cabbages (I think!)
• three Glaskin's Perpetual Rhubarb plants (hmmm, looking forward to rhubarb crumble!)
• green mustard seeds for green manure (for back half of plot once compost bin is sorted)

We also have a HUGE compost bin that I collected from the council depot on Friday. A little research on the internet resulted in me finding out that our council sells compost bins for £10 which saved a small fortune that it would have cost from a gardening type shop. Had fun getting it to plot though! As we don't have a car, I took it as far as I could on a bendy bus and then walked the rest of the way. Consider my arms very bruised from the effort!

I attempted to put the compost bin in place and fill it today but it seems the weeds we pulled on on days one, two and three were significantly more than I thought. After a half hearted effort, I gave up. Must try harder next time!

Seeds for next year have also arrived thanks to the fabulous Dobies seed sale!