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.