Yesterday, in unexpectedly warm and sunny conditions, Stuart was able to join me and we could make a start on the fruit cage. With spirit level and sledge hammer in hand, and the previously sharpened 'pencils' made from fence posts, we hammered in the four corner posts of the cage and then started on the centre piece. Amazingly, there were two thrown away fence posts (from one of the adjoining houses, probably) and with part of one added to the whole of the other post that will make sure that the final piece is long enough (ie high enough), once it's planted, to support the netting. Stuart made rapid progress and it will just take a final visit to the allotment together (probably one fine evening after work) to fit everything together, screw or bolt it tight, and hammer it into the ground.
Whilst Stuart was doing that I finished planting some fruit plants that Linda and I bought some months back on one of our caravanning trips - 2 raspberries, 2 blackberries, 2 strawberry plants.
Today I went back to the allotment on my own to complete the potato planting. We now have 20 each of Swift, Charlotte and Sarpo Mira on the allotment so we look forward to good crops over quite a long season.
The over-wintered onion sets don't look too bad. Not all survived, but most did, and I expect them to start growing quite strongly from now on. I bought some Spring planting onion sets as well so we can add to the existing ones, filling in the gaps, as well as plant up another small section of the plot with the remainder.
We're off to Herefordshire tomorrow for a couple of nights in the caravan and that will be a lovely break before the allotment saga continues.
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