Sunday, 27 March 2016

Easter Sunday: Operation potatoes

Happy Easter.

Today at the allotment was potato planting day. We have had the seed potatoes chitting in the kitchen for the past few weeks, but today we planted 5 first earlies and 5 main crop. Then in a few weeks we will plant another 5 of each so we can stagger the harvest. Earlies will be ready around June/July then the main crop in August/September. 

We had to do a fair bit of digging to get the beds ready, especially as we decided to extend the last two beds and join them together. So we now we have two big beds instead of four smaller ones, which gives us a bit more planting space.

I managed to get muddy as usual.






Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Leap year at the allotment

Our little allotment was the setting of a very special occasion this week.
I decorated one end with bunting, fairy lights, tea light lanterns, I had insense burning and a BBQ on the go. When the sun went down it looked great. The photos don't really do it justice. It was actually very cosy.

I left a note for David to dress warm and meet me there. I got down on one knee and asked him to marry me...




..He said yes!
😍