The shed is a couple of weeks old now but as promised, here is a photo. My Dad, looking very smug - as well he should be, standing in the doorway of his creation. The only thing we had to buy was some wooden uprights and some roofing felt, a total of £25. I challenge anyone to find a 7' shed in B&Q for that sort of money. A true allotment recycling endeavour.
The whole plot is looking absolutely amazing - even though I do say so myself. Hard to believe that in less than 10 months we have gone from shoulder high weeds to this. I am managing to keep on top of the weeds whilst planting crops in the newly prepared ground. My OH is doing a sterling job with the digging, he is very meticulous fetching out as much root as he can, although I am still finding that Rosebay Willow Herb, Couch Grass, Bind Weed and Thistle are tending to get the better of him. Until the end of the season and we dig the ground over again I am working in the hope that if I chop the tops off often enough they might give up and go away!
Our dog, Cassie, loves the allotment. Mainly because it means she gets to lay outside in the sun all day - I wonder where the saying "It's a dogs life" comes from? It sure looks like a good life to me.
The potatoes are coming on a treat, I can't wait to harvest them. Mmmm melted butter on freshly harvested boiled potatoes - yummy.
The Purple Sprouting Broccoli is not doing so well, I thought I had covered it up adequately with some plastic netting, the sort you pin to a wall to grow climbers up. Unfortunately I hadn't taken into account the size of the holes and the size of a pigeons head. Ah well live and learn - I've covered them properly now and sewn another row, just hope we have a long summer this year or it looks like Tesco will be providing our brassicas again this year.
The peas and the french beans look good too, originally I was going to make a 3 sisters bed as advocated by Carol Klein on her TV show Grow Your Own Veg. But having read the comments on Welsh Girls Allotment from other people who had tried it, apparently the beans grow up the sweetcorn and make it difficult to harvest anything. I have therefore opted for a 2 sisters bed, just the sweetcorn and squash. I don't mind wading through squash to pick the corn, and by the time the squash are ready the corn will be finished.
And finally - an egg. I found this buried just below the radish in the old bath. My OH had riddled all the soil before it went into the bath so there is no way that it could have come in with manure (as in Our Allotment Blog). I have seen other reports of mystery eggs, usually duck or goose but this one appears to be a hens egg. I don't think there are hens on the allotments, I have certainly not heard any. My only thought is that a fox buried it before the radish started to grow. 
Last but not least, a photo of my garden, it looked so lovely in the sun today I couldn't resist posting this photo.
