At last some sunshine

We finally got onto the allotment and did some much needed weeding. The herb patch is now clear, just need to redistribute the herbs a bit as they are all bunched together in the middle. It looks so much better though.

David was busy clearing one of the other beds and the ground under the cold frame. There a few strawberry plants left in there. They were a disaster last year so hopefully we'll get more fruit this year. Once the ground drys up a bit and we can dig it over properly this bed will be ready for planting.


And in the flower bed it's nice to see a bit of colour coming through. A few crocuses starting to open up showing off their lovely purple petals. Can't wait for the spring now.

A trip to the garden centre

We had a lovely trip to the garden centre in Ware today. It's a massive place with a mini zoo there too. We saw the usual rabbits, chickens, goats but they also have raccoons which a beautiful, tortoises, meerkats, marmosets. It's was really cool.

Anyway, back to business. We got a few pretty perennials to go in the flowers bed, which the bees will hopefully like. David picked a monarda pink lace and a coreopsis early sunrise.

We also got a few different types of lettuce to go, and some broccoli, Chinese cabbage and curly red kale. These like nice fertile soil so we got a bag of smelly organic farmyard manure to dig into the soil. Not for the faint hearted.