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Progress - Update
With an increase in sowing activity and March slowly creeping towards its end, activity on the allotment is starting to increase week on week, I’ve just got to get there on my allocated Saturday morning. Potatoes in the ground, Onion, Leeks update.
Brassica overload
An early start on Saturday morning with a little girl desperate to get up and go down stairs and with the sun sneaking through the bind in the bedroom, there seemed very little hope of having a lazy start to the day.
First Sowing of the season - Onions and Leeks
After making my own plan I’ve realised I am actually a few weeks behind where I should be at this time of the year, add a little bit of sunshine and the panic is already starting to set in.
Making a plan is a good plan
At the end of every growing season you know what has worked well and what hasn’t worked at all. For both areas, there are a number of factors that will have contributed to the success or fail of your prized crops.
Introduction to the year ahead
Well its now the 1st of March and the sunshine is beaming through the office window, you would never have thought 10 minutes earlier the rain was hamming so hard on the roof that you thought storm Doris had finally arrived in Leeds.