weve been trying get down the lottie as much in the week as possible just to ge some bits and pieces done, and the extra digging is helping me shift the pre wedding butt too!,
we popped down tuesday afternoon, and an old lady was strolling around chatting to people, we had a natter and she turned out to be the wife of an old chap a few plots down with a gorgeous plot, this chap was one of the ones who eyed us suspicously when we first arrived.
anyhow she said that her husband had said he was really impressed with the two of us and we allways seem to be working hard and our plot is comming along 'just lovley'!!!! wohhhoooo !!!!
ive just started digging another bed out with has got to top the list of 'worse couch grass ever' so thats gonna take some getting out, but its all good anyway.
we have just taken on the plot next door which is chock a block full of branbles, so im gonna do it bit by bit, and try the cardboard, manure, then black plastic and plant my left over spuds in just to see what happens.! im so full of inspiration after watching my 'allotment' dvd that arrived last week, theres so many good ideas on there specially when youre just starting up like us!
im a bit unsure whether one or two of the fruit bushes have died on us or not.. ill give em another couple of weeks to prove emself then theyre out!
im still unsure about the rotation thing, it seems to me the way i have planted things out, im going to be swapping plants all over the place, and im sure ive not done it right, mind you, the girls on me allotment forum have told me to chill and not woryy, so i guess theyre right!

Saturday April 15th,16th and 17th!!!

have spent the most fantastic few days on the lottie. Brians pretty much finishing off the shed now by paining it a lovley browny colourand hes put together a pub style bench that we bought a few years ago and had nowhere to put.he gotta put up the guttering and connect it to the water butt so we can get a serious stash of rain water going.
my bro-inlaw and my niece have been helping too which has been lovley, kevin has been getting stuck in by helping me to dig out some more beds, which always kills my back, so ive been sat on me bum pulling mountains of couch grass out!.
ive planted some more seeds,Beans,spring onions,and swede,
and some baby beetroot.
when we first started digging the beds out i had began to pile the earth up[ at one end of the plot with the idea to cover it in black plastic and let it rot down a bit... its in the piccy on the left hand side bit. ive now changed my mind and weve spent a few hours digging it all back up again and piling it all in nice clods at the back of the lottie, it looks like dry stone walling! i reckon with some nice wildflwer seeds over top it will look lovley!, which means now ive got some more space to sow my sweetpeas to make a lovley wall which will smell gorgeous when the wind blows through it.
i had a few hours all to myself today when everyone had buggered off for a while which was real nice, the sun was belting down, i had my tea and a fag (NFG bog off!) and my sarnie and i was total heaven, ohh for more days like this.

my gorgeous neice, chloe morris

Just had to post a piccy of my beautifull neice chloe after her winning the under 10 champ of champ southcoast masters slow dance finale....how proud am I!!!!!! (allways feel better when shes washed that cack off her face though!!!)

Saturday April 15th

above: is that shit on my shoe????
above left: our chloe working hard, bless
left: our multicoloued thing of beauty!!!















seeing as the weathers been dryer we decided to pop down the lottie today as well as sunday, im glad we did really coz weve managed to get quite a bit done. Kevin and my neice chloe came down today to help too, so kevin dug us another bed out while me and chloe started weeding all the couch grass out of the new beds, bloody stuff its everywhere!
ive noticed the onion sets are starting to show through and the garlic too yipee!!
ive planted out some spring onions and some perpetual spinage today too, im quite interested to see how the spinach grows as we love eating this anyway!
brian has put the roofing felt on the shed and the door too, and just needs to make it all the same colour...at the moment its all multicoloured!
my sister has given me a load of her shrubs out of her garden as they have moved to a place thats only got flagstones everywhere (horrible!) so ive took some down the lottie and put em in pots to brighten it up a little.
i was most impressed with our chloe earlier, she was planting a pieris in a pot for me and filled the pot half full, then made a little hole to put it in etc... when kevin asked her how she knew what to do she said. 'Auntie Sarah showed me last year when we were planting her petunia's !!!' i
was sooooo proud!

me and donna haloween 04

me (centre) and girls bridley moor shite school, (lunch break @ plugs house)

hmm yes....

our Lilly on the bloody greenhouse!

our mad moggy Gordon....

sunday April 9th

Spent this morning down at the lottie, and met a few more people down there too. Everyone seems so friendly, if we couold get some more people down there now taking on plots it would be exellent!
My sisters partner kevin said he would pop down too, so after we had been there for a fabulous sunny half hour he rang to say he was at the gates waiting to be let in.
As i started to walk down to the gates all of a sudden the heavens opened and it belted it down with rain and hail!!!!!! i couldnt belive it! poor Kev, so we had to stand in the shed untill it had passed over then we returned to work in ernest.
We have managed to get another couple of beds dug out, and not much else unfortunatley coz of the bloody rain!!!
im now thinking of taking another plot on next door to us, as i can see that im soon gonna run out of space and i want some where to make a nice seating area with a few shrubs and stuff, so thats another thing to think about!!!

me,donna and jen Newquay 05

me and donna

me and my nephew and niece...ahhhhh

daft post, just trying to get a piccy on my lottie forum!!!! its no good, im far too pants with computers!!!!!!!

Sunday April 2nd

down to the lottie today, determined to get thru some more weeds and couch grass, so i have gone through the beds that i have already dug with a fine tooth comb, and really had a good old go, the soil looks so good, me and bri have really belted the pants out of it, to break down all the clods of earth!
after close inspection today i noticed that some of my onion sets have started to sprout, its either that, or the garlic that ive planted alongside them!
I really need to work on building the soil up on the raised beds, as all the stuff thats been taken out of it has meant that im going to be bending right down to sow and weed, rather than just crouching down, so ive worked in some more manure, and a load of compost too.
its done nowt else but rain and be windy today, so im glad that brians nearly finished the shed so we can shelter in there!
we have noticed that a few more people are taking the empty plots on now too, so hopefull we,ll see some new faces when the better weather arrives.
As i was about to throw away an old carpet that someone had left behind i noticed two frogs getting very 'friendly' underneath!!! bless em! so ive covered em up and left em to it!!!!!