Weeding and watering all in a day's work

At last Neil feels better and his knee is working properly. Well, tendonitus below the knee a pain but the actual knee is functioning so...........it seems you can't have it all. We went up and everything looks great. We spent about an hour weeding and watering. Trying to give the veg that is coming through a fighting chance. The weeds are so prolific! We pulled up some more radishes that are a great shape and planted some new ones in return. Neil weeded the carrot bed and I did the onions and potatoes again. The potatoes aren't as big as the ones in our garden here, so not sure if they are overwhelmed a bit up the allotment but we'll see what happens now the weeds have gone.

The boys did some fab watering with their elephant watering cans and some awesome fighting inbetween. We went on a bug hunt and Lou sat in the car for a while listening to hip hop and reading his spiderman magazine.....my big nearly 6 boy! I spied lots of poppies particularly in the boys area which has largely been left untouched aside from the potato tyres which are flourishing.

All in all we felt it was a very calming place to be and agreed if the boys weren't with us we would probably stay all day and eve and enjoy a glass of wine or two at our lovely table and chairs donated by Nanny and BB! We left feeling like we can't wait to get back. Now that's got to be  good.

Nanny and BB

Great day on the allotment front. Nanny and BB came to help whilst Louis went to his best buds birthday party. For two whole hours in the sunshine we weeded and dug and watered, Oh and Sammy played hide the dinosaurs and ate lots of chocolate biscuits. Daddy is on cricket tour and we thought of him when we weeded around squarecrow Jack's feet, which are wearing old cricket shoes where the toe has been cut out on the bowlers shoe!

I weeded around the onions and found how lovely they can look standing alone without being overwhelmed by everything. Mum used the long hoe to weed around the small carrot tops and Dad dug over a big patch which we will plant up with sweetcorn soon. The boys love corn on the cob so worth a go. Dad will probably be hurting tomorrow, he dug a lot and it looks great. No photographic evidence but thanks Dad. Mum probably doesn't want to play hide the dinosaur again for a while, it was hot work!

The courgettes are spreading their wide leaves but the beans don't look too strong just yet. I wonder if it may be too dry for them up there. A neighbouring plot owner talked to me today about the dry soil and I don't think it will get any better seeing as we near the top of the hill. I will have to make sure I water every other day. Anyhow a great day and made much easier with help, so thank you Nanny and BB x

Our first food, yum, yum, yum

Well I'm now two helpers down in the allotment. The knee op man is getting better and now at work, and one of my little helpers has a plastercast on his arm. The smallest helper fell asleep on the way there.....despite Louis' injuries he very much enjoyed plucking very long radishes from the ground. They are yummy and long and big! 

A quick water and great to see everything flourishing -yes that includes the weeds. The potato plants are flowering and the carrot tops are starting to poke through. Grandad came briefly on Sunday and planted pumpkin seeds with Sammy in the hope we may have one by Halloween. The boys love that idea!

Things are starting to happen!

Rain and happy plants

A quick pop up the allotment after thunder and lightening storms and the plants look very lush and happy with themselves. The potato project the boys planted is a 'forest' much to the boys delight. The radishes have popped up in a few weeks and the red bodies are poking through their leaves. The onions have green shoots standing up proudly (through the weeds!). Neil with his knee op is still sore so he planted himself on the bench and later managed a bit of sitting down light weeding. A few weeds pulled here and there and the boys were fed up and wanted to go home! Still it is so lovely just to be up there, a little bit now and then will do the trick.