The start

We went straight up to the allotment after picking everyone up and getting changed into some old clothes.

Once there we started the work. My mother cleared out the pig shed. She found a lot of gloves plant pots and loads of spiders. Rather her than me I hate spiders. I get squeamish because you can see a lot of spiders running through the grass but so far i have been very brave.

 I tried to get through the grass that had dried up and turned into straw. Just by raking it up but I kept hitting carpet.  Which was annoying since at the top of our do's and do not's list that was given to us was NO CARPET. So we had to keep stopping to rip carpet, mesh and black liner.
Not only were we finding all that fabric we found some lil critters. Feisty frogs and slow worms. It was a good break just playing with them all.

 We have also found out that our plot is bigger than we thought instead of a rectangle shape. Ours goes into a point at one end.

So here is the overall progress of our time.

You can see the trash pile over the other side where we are putting all the carpet etc. The exposed dirt where we ripped the carpet up. All though it does not seem that I have 'raked' the dry grass at all, I have removed quite a bit.


27/03/2012
We went there again this time we went just after 1:30 I was still in my nice work jeans and not my holey ones as well as my nice dolly shoes. We did the same as yesterday except this time we only had 1hr30 and only me my mum and my brother, who might I add is always on the go and wants to do everything. He spent all the time just standing around not doing a thing.
I tried to do more of the grass but it did not look like i have done a thing still. I left my phone in the car so no photo update maybe next time.

The real good life begins

Hello, this is my new blog. It will hopefully be all about gardening. vegetable gardening to be exact. we have just recently gotten an allotment. It is about 8rods. It is quite a good size. So far it has a pig shed shelter. Some bean frames, a wooden frame and orange plastic netting which could be used later on.
The day my mum signed for it (Friday) I was in a first aid training course for work. As soon as that was finished we went up there for 30 mins before schools kicked out as we had to get my sister.
When we arrived we saw a fox and it was only 2:30pm. Way early for foxes to be out. it was a shame it was too far for the camera on my phone to pic it out. There will always be next time. 


Before:

The first photo

 After:

 

As you can see the orange netting is put away in the shed some of the shed stuff was binned. The black plastic was picked up. It had a lot of wood on top of it I guess to keep it flat. But that is going in the bin. All the bricks were gathered and put in a pile. Bamboo sticks and other pieces of wood were picked up. Lastly some of the netting was picked up. It kind of shredded as there was dirt piled up on it but once we have longer down there it will be gone. 

At the moment I think we are just focusing on getting the earth ready. We do have some ideas of what we are planting. The usual potatoes cabbage lettuce etc. I am kind of annoyed that I cant use tires as that is how I grew my potatoes last year in some tires. I guess that the rubber might leak chemicals. so we will have to find a different way to do it this year. 

 

I think I  will try and update this every time I go down there and I hope to have photos of the progress we have made.