February

I love seed packets. I love the potential of them.

These are just some of the ones I have at home, purchased last year, but never sown. Julie and I ordered some more through the allotment scheme and were reviewing our planting plans for this season. I drew out a rough plan, and will transfer the information to a previous plan, on which I recorded more precise measurements.

Here is the rough plan:

As I said, it’s very rough and I made a bit of a mess of the scale and relative positions of things. The bottom left-hand corner is where the shed is, and the round shape next to it is the not-yet purchased water butt. We’re planning to put a raised bed of salad leaves around it and install a seep hose, so that we don’t have to panic about getting down there every day.

The other round shape is the composter, which may not be ideally situated but is central (more central than my slightly skew-whiff plan would have you believe). We keep thinking of other crops we want to grow. Not yet on this plan is space for beetroot, which we enjoyed last year. I was also reminded earlier, when reading Flighty’s Plot, that I would like to get my herb patch underway. Not sure where we’re going to put that. Perhaps I need to think about situating it at home, where it will be it will handy for the kitchen.

Last weekend, Hubby came up to the allotment. He doesn’t often come, as Sunday tends to be the day we go and he’s usually occupied with baseballish type things. It was a good opportunity to chat about our plans and mark him down for a few manly jobs (no gender stereotyping here), such as putting the guttering on the shed and sorting out the shelving inside.

P.s. Do you like the new livery? I liked the previous template design, but some of the text was difficult to read in that lovely lime-green colour.