Spring Changes

I have become a little garden obsessed over the past few months. I hit a bit of a miserable patch back in April where I totally lost interest in cooking. Something in my mood was turning food sour. I couldn't cook and I didn't want to.  I also wasn't sleeping well and my moods were, well bloody awful but with the help of warm sunny days, Nytol, a bed time book and no internet activity after 9pm,  I feel so much better.

We've now got an allotment and today when I visited, it was covered in the vigorous weed known at fat hen. I could not believe the density of the stuff. It had smothered my veg seedings to the point I couldn't see what I had planted. With the help of  Rosie and Matilda, we managed to pull up most of the thatch of weed with Matilda wielding what ever garden tool she could find, she also managed to destroy the few seedings I has planned on eating. Errrrgh.

We were very lucky with getting an allotment this year. I had applied to Norwich Council in Feb only to be told the waiting list was at least a year away. I then heard of a scheme called Grow Our Own - GO2, where allotments were available - but not only that, it is a scheme where seeds, seedlings, plants, manure, tools and advice are all part of the package. We've had it about 6 weeks now. We had to dig up a heap of weeds and old potato plants and then raise the beds to help deter small feet from trampling our small plants. We now have a selection of  things growing, a smaller section then I had last week due to Matilda's 'weeding' and the harsh frost a few nights back.

 

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[steph]

Allotments are so popular, crowds of people I work with have taken up growing veg and fruit. Some have even spread out into window boxes on the balconies at work. Crate loads of sprouting broccolli have been fought over in the coffee area, I am hoping to fund next years seedlings with cash from carrot and beans sales in the same scrapping zone. Good luck with the weeds.