Allotment Tales March 6th 2025

A beautiful warm day saw us peeling off one or two layers and enjoying breaktime in the early Spring sunshine. Simple pleasures!

We were high in numbers today so managed some serious plot maintenance. Today was a great opportunity to coax out ropes of couch grass roots from under the hazels and along border edges – a very satisfying task. We found a short path that went nowhere so removed the slabs, creating more space in the bed for produce.

Foxgloves seed their cubs wherever they please and are lovely to have, appreciated by us as well as the bees. We re-homed a bundle of these in an area we’re thinking of cultivating with a mix of pollen-rich plants.

Bags of netting were emptied. The most perished lengths were binned, after years of service and the remaining pieces rolled up and labelled by size. We’ve never been so organised!

The Saskatoon was lightly pruned, and we harvested between 3-5Kg of Dwarf artichokes, replanting some of the roots for this coming year.

Jobs for Next Week: Put in onion sets (weather dependent); replace soil in the blue tubs with freshly sieved compost, ready for this year’s carrots; continue weeding and other weekly tasks.