Moved Shallot 'Jermor', Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' and Garlic 'Lautrec Wight' plants into Coldframe

Today I moved the Shallot 'Jermor', Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' and Garlic 'Lautrec Wight' plants from the Home Greenhouse to the Coldframe on the Allotment.

Shallot 'Jermor' plants in the Greenhouse at home

Garlic plants in the Greenhouse at home

Shallot plants and Garlic plants in the Coldframe

Coldframe on Allotment 1

Today I also checked on the Onion sets that are in the Allotment Greenhouse and these appear to be coming up quite well.

Onion sets in the Allotment Greenhouse

I also made up the storage box for the Allotment and this has been put into the Polytunnel for the time being due to the weather today.

Storage box before being made up

Storage box in the Polytunnel made up

Dug over Fruit Cage, Pruned Redcurrant Bushes, dug over edges of fruit beds and put manure round fruit bushes, raspberries/loganberries and rhubarb. Finally finished Allotment 1

Today I went down to onto Allotment 1 for about 5 hours. I dug over in the Fruit cage to clear all the weeds, including a lot of bindweed roots out. I also pruned the Redcurrant bushes so that they are more compact and therefore it should be easier to pick the fruit in the Summer.

I also straightened the edge of the fruit beds to make it look tidier as well as put manure around the fruit bushes, rhubarb and around my raspberries and loganberries.

I have finally finished digging over Allotment 1 and have now done most of the tidying up.

Front edge of the Fruit Cage

Redcurrant bush

Manure around fruit bushes

Looking from Fruit cage down to the Rhubarb patch
and Raspberry/Loganberry patches

Raspberry and Loganberry patches

Rhubarb patch after manuring

Looking down towards the Greenhouse from the Fruit Cage

Looking down the Allotment from the raised beds

Pruned Gooseberry bushes, Cleared Rhubarb bed and dug the front edge of the Fruit Cage

Today I went down onto Allotment 1 for about 2 1/2 hours. I pruned the Gooseberry bushes quite hard because they were falling over.

Pruned Gooseberry Bushes

I also cleared the Rhubarb bed from weeds (mostly Couch Grass and Bindweed roots) so that they are able to grow without weeds all round them. While doing this I also dug out and straightened the front edge of the Fruit Cage to enable me to peg the net down into the soil.

The Rhubarb bed before being dug over

Front edge of the Fruit Cage before clearing

The Cleared Rhubarb bed

Cleared Front edge of the Fruit Cage

Continued pruning Blackcurrant bushes and started to clear the Fruit Cage

Today I went down to Allotment 1 for about 1 hour and continued to prune the Blackcurrant bushes. I also started to clear the Fruit Cage but ran out of time today so will continue with this tomorrow.

Before pruning and starting to
clear the Fruit Cage

After some pruning and starting
 to clear the fruit cage

Went to Seedy Sunday, Brighton

Today I went to Seedy Sunday, Brighton for the day and went watched a chat about the changes of the South Down's Landscape. I also went and looked around all the stall's at the Seedy Sunday and brought a few items which are listed under the tab 'Brought for Season 2015- 2016'

Went to Seedy Saturday, Lewes

Today I went to Seedy Saturday, Lewes for the day of which I went to talk's about Bee's, Pruning of Soft Fruit as well as Pruning of Roses. I also had a look around all of the stalls at the Seedy Saturday event. I will be going to the event tomorrow in Brighton.

Finished Digging of Vegetable Plot on Allotment 1 and tidied behind the Greenhouse

Today I went down to Allotment 1 for 3 1/2 hours. I finished the digging of the Vegetable plot, which took longer than expected as I had to clear the pathway at the back of the plot, using the hand shears to cut the shrubbery and hedge, and then dig over a few feet extra which was reclaimed from the back pathway. I also straightened the back edge up.

My mum then came down to the Allotment and helped to clear behind the Greenhouse, which means that I have now moved a lot of the canes and bags from behind the Greenhouse, allowing a clear path through here. Some white pebbles were found behind the Greenhouse so these have been sprinkled among the pots containing the Fruit trees, and Blueberries.

The amount of Allotment plot that I thought originally
needed digging

A photo showing the whole allotment dug over, and the
back edge having been straightened up

A photo showing a view of the vegetable plot on Allotment 1
look down the Allotment, and the bags of rubbish having
been cleared away

Looking at the back of the Greenhouse
after being tidied up

White pebbles in the pots

The box at the back left hand side of the Greenhouse is currently full up with raised bed boards, however I will move these out in the foreseeable future and find a new home for these and this box will be dismantled as it appears to be falling apart. I will possibly replace this with a new box but will site this behind the Greenhouse and may put my tools in it to keep them dry and get them out of the Greenhouse.

Tomorrow (weather permitting), I plan to finish the tidying up of Allotment 1, by putting manure round the raspberries and loganberries and therefore removing these bags. I also found a bag of seaweed today which was behind the Greenhouse and will put this onto the plot for nutrients. Tomorrow I also plan to weed around Rhubarb to tidy this up and I will try to keep this bed as weed free as possible.

The Rhubarb patch on Allotment 1

The Fruit Cage will be weeded and manured when I have fully pruned the fruit bushes however this will not be done until at least next week as I will be going to a presentation on Saturday which shows how to prune these properly.