Saturday 18 March 2017

An Afternoon Working My New Allotment

I posted late last year about how I'd swapped my old allotment, which I was struggling to maintain, for a new smaller one around the corner from my house. It was pretty sad to leave the old one, but I was looking forward to working one that was more manageable for me, considering my new commitment to the CS.

I visited the new plot back in November and started work digging it over.  It wasn't in too bad condition, but there was quite a lot of digging to do as it was still a good size. Here's what it looked like when I took it over.



Here's how I left it back in November after digging half of it over.



When I arrived today, it looked like this.


As you can see, there are many more weeds on the half I didn't dig over before Christmas.

Anyway, as there are going to be inspections at the end of the month, and as the weather is starting to warm up, I thought I'd better get to work this week, so on Friday afternoon I took myself there and do some digging.

I stayed for about 3 hours digging over some of the beds.  I decided to dig between the beds too as I'm not sure I want paths between beds as was the arrangement before.  It was hard work and by the time I'd finished I was aching all over. Some muscles I never knew I had were letting me know about it.

Here's the result of my work.


I'm probably just over a third of the way round.  The bed in the foreground looks larger than it actually is in this photograph, it's actually quite narrow.  If I can walk tomorrow, I may go back and do some more work. I'm looking forward to getting growing on this plot and see how things fare.



6 comments:

  1. That looks like a lot of hard work but very satisfying - it has rained all weekend here so far - so no chance to get in the garden for me. I miss our old allotment garden - look forward to seeing yours unfold over the coming months.

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    1. It's a bit boring at the moment, but I'm hoping to breathe a bit of life into it eventually.

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  2. You did very well. I don't think I could manage to do as much as you did. I thank heavens for our tiller every garden season.

    God bless.

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    1. Unfortunately, I didn't get back there this weekend, as it was bit windy and I needed to do some housework.

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  3. I love that you have art on your plot! It looks like a nice manageable space too

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    1. Yes, the artwork is on the side wall of the building next door to the site. It's a boxing/youth club. It's quite interesting.

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