Master Plan

This is my first Master Plan for the allotment. Given the small amount I have got dug and cleared so far,  and the almighty lack of digging weather (why was everybody on the radio yesterday harping on about the beautiful spring weather?) with time ticking on, I am currently working on plan #2, which has approximately the same areas of the same crops but arranged such that I can have a chap in to rotavate the top half of the plot (where I will plant potatoes and other things that don’t mind it a bit weedy). I can even leave the middle section uncleared and uncultivated until next winter if necesssary although I have yet to decide which veg will be sacrificed if I do so.

The lack of good-enough weather  – while I might be happy in principle to go and work in the rain, I can’t take the kids and our very heavy clay soil wont thank me for it – hasn’t stopped me sowing seeds: so far I have broad beans about 5″ high, tiny cauliflowers and 3″ tomatoes and have sown romanesco caulis, purple-sprouting broccoli, more broad beans, more tomatoes and aubergines, and sweet peas, all sown in an impressively short space of time as Tamsin currently feels she’d like to be held all the time please. Maggie planted the broad beans, which is fantastic as they germinate fast, grow fast, and she loves to pod and eat them.

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