Seed and little helper soldier

A couple of visits to the allotment have happened lately, Granddad came to visit from Folkestone, so he and Neil planted out Potatoes and shared some quality time together the other day. Good to get those going now, always signals the start of the growing year for me, easy as pie and off we go.

Yesterday Sammy and I had some time together and sowed some seed directly, Beets (Golden) and some Carrot, Autumn King. Sammy used a small hand hoe (passed down from Granddad) to make little channels in the soil and very carefully thought about where each seed should fall. We put them to bed and covered them lightly with soil and Sammy used his elephant can to give them a drink.

We planted some nasturtiums near the newly placed archway and hope they go mad.

We cut back some gorgeous yellow Forsythia to let in some more light over the Potatoes and Sammy used one of the branches as a weapon which he carried around following me saying he was "protecting me" and marched like a soldier. That kid has imagination by the bucket load. He used to go "Craning" with a bamboo cane, standing on top of a pallet as his raft and trying to catch fish in the beds!

It is coming along now, sunshine helps of course but once we have a few veg in, I always calm down a bit and take it easy and enjoy it. Prior to that I feel like I will never achieve all I would like! But we're on our way now.