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.