All quiet at the allotment

As the snow falls it's a pretty good time to stay indoors. As expected, I did manage to get 2 trailer loads of manure - one from Bhylls Lane, the other from Stafford Road. Despite all the time and effort the end result always looks rather disappointing so fortunately much of the allotment was manured last year and doesn't all need re-doing.

We'll concentrate on the area of the fruit cage and the upper sections this Autumn and I'll try to get more manure during the Spring as well.

I planted around 30 cloves of over-wintering garlic so hopefully they'll have got established a bit before this cold spell. They are supposed to be very hardy anyway so there shouldn't be any problems.

Still in the ground are sprouts, parsnips, Jerusalem artichokes and chard so we'll still have some fresh produce up until Christmas, if not beyond.

A whole lot of manure going on!

Stuart (my son) was quite sensibly away in Wakefield having a good time when I had chosen to hire a trailer to get a couple of loads of manure for the allotment. The company were great and reckoned a loan from noon on Saturday until 9am on Monday was just a day (can't complain about that!) and were also very friendly and welcoming too - so all was set for a Saturday afternoon manure snatch (from a place on Stafford Road that I passed every day of my life when I worked at Rodbaston) and from the place at the end of Bhylls Lane on Sunday afternoon (which I discovered last year and thought might have disposed of everything by now). Photographic evidence will surely follow.