On putting yellow fingers to work

• By Alison
• 29 June, 2007
• Comments Off on On putting yellow fingers to work

Ok, so we’re back in the land of blighty. At some point in time I’ll update you on our trip away (worst floods in 50 years or so, what fun!) but for
now I have a new passion. Our allotment.

As you probably have no idea, I’ve been trying to grow some
veges in the back garden. Thanks to our trip away, most of the veges are casualties of my husband’s inability to put snail pellets down. The last count
shows 12 leeks, 4 carrots, 2 half eated sweet peppers, 0 courgettes and 0 broccoli. (I do have to admit that the broccoli was already dead before we flew out,
but it sounded more dramatic.)

I had a hard time finding the vege plot where the 4 carrots were struggling through, thanks to the weeds that had swarmed down from the rockery like an army of
ants. So you’d think that more gardening was probably not going to be on the agenda, but you’d be wrong.

A friend has just got an allotment which we are going to share. It’s covered in grass, seeded rhubarb and raspberries, and it’s all ours for the
tilling! This Saturday I will be turning the dirt over and de-weeding one of the beds in preparation for something. Not sure what yet – it’s fairly late in
the season to be starting stuff, but I am sure there are a few things that would thrive. Unless I kill them off.

So I have decided to keep a gardening blog. Maybe I’ll change the title of this one from the unhinged mother, to the accidental gardener. And I’ll take
photos of whatever comes up… I hope there is something for photographing!