First Allotment Food!

Hello! It's been a while hasn't it. Between hurting my arm and waiting for the rotavation to occur there hasn't been much activity to report at all.

The rotavation still hasn't happened, to mine or anyone elses plot. I haven't had the chance to chat to anyone about it but I'm guessing the council are dragging their feet.

As the land I cleared has been left untouched waiting for the rotavation it is now covered with a carpet of fresh weeds!! I always knew that it'd be a never ending job to keep on top of them but I hadn't anticipated so much.

In brighter news, we scored an old hessian backed carpet from a local freecycler which my Dad very kindly brought up in the car for us, along with some other things we needed.

And today - the unidentified currants I've been watching since we got the allotment were ripe for picking - lovely juicy blackcurrants, 360 grams of them. It probably would've been more if we'd been on the ball before the birds noticed them!

The birds got all of the raspberries while we weren't visiting much so although we didn't get any, I did gain the knowledge that I will need netting for the bushes next year so it wasn't a wasted experience.

We also found three blackberries too, plus loads more to come. I love blackberries, they're a symbol of the approach of my most favourite season. Between the allotment and the thorn less blackberry bush in our back yard, I think we might be able to leave the ones in the woods for other pickers this year and still have enough for pies galore - yay!

In other news, during an over-ambitious evening browsing sites online, I ordered a winter vegetable garden from Wiggly Wigglers which is mostly brassicas and leeks. I didn't really think it through and the plot isn't anywhere near ready for them! I'm going to try my best to get the ground prepared for them this weekend and buy some netting to keep pests off them.

I'm going to do my best with them and anything edible will be a bonus but I'm not going to stress myself over it - that isn't the point of the allotment. Whatever happens I will learn from it and now I know to stay away from late night shopping without thinking things through!!