Allotment #146 continued

As planned today was a day of digging as Chris, Sharon and I started to prepare our allotment plot for planting season.

Here's how I left the plot last week:

Shocking isn't it! The worst thing is that, weed growth wise, this is an improvement!

Thankfully Casey the dog was onsite to lend a paw with the digging. Here he is with his bounty of weeds.

Chris, Sharon and I got stuck in with some digging too.

Here's Sharon

Here's Chris

As a result of today's hard work section 1 is completely dug over and ready for the manure to go on. Section 2 is dug over and weed free, except for 1 patch of 2009 spinach which will be cleared another day. In section 2 Chris planted some onion sets (red and white*).

Sections 3 & 4 will be revisited soon.

Here's Chris's onion patch, the long strip on the right.

All in all today was a productive today setting on the path to allotment victory.

The dug over section in this picture is section 1 before section 2 got dug over and the onions went in.

Won't make it to the allotment until Feb 6th so lets hope the snow stays away until we cover up the patch!

Chris and Sharon bought the onion sets in Mr Middleton's store on Mary Street but you can also buy from their online shop. (For €4 you get apx 100)