Borrowed weeders and whistling tea pots....

Thought it was about time I did another blog post....





I am getting a good harvest with every visit to the lottie at the minute, things are looking good :)

I made my first ever Jam, blackcurrant, it's been a great hit with the family and I got 4 jars, (2 large and 2 small) from 2 blackcurrant bushes.






Everything has shot up lately probably due to all of the nice weather we've been having.




Jessie is over the moon that her sunflowers have shot up and are actually taller than she is now!




Her flowers are looking good too.

We've been having fun with Janet and David's chickens (the plot holders next to us) they have loaned us a run, trusted us with a key and shown us how to pick up the chickens and get them onto our plot and back. They have been doing a great job on the chickweed and digging over the patch for the winter/spring veg. Jessie likes the white one best, she says it pulls funny faces and dances hehe...

Everything else on the plot is practically working itself, a good hoeing and watering and it tends to itself really.


Also, I bought myself a gas stove and whistling kettle to keep in the shed, no more nippy fingers in the autumn/spring, just nice hot coffee. I so can't wait to get it going!!


Ohhhhh, I almost forgot, I got an awesome complitment on the lottie the other day, a lady walked past as I was putting the french marigolds in and stopped me to say how well it was all looking, and that she always stops to look as it's her favourite plot :) I was over the moon.




Sorry the pics are a bit muddled, they won't sort out propperly for some unknown reason, perhaps I wont leave it so long next time...

Everything's turning pretty...

Down on the lottie... Flowers are out in full bloom, bees are buzzing and I've seen a few stray butterflies making thier way around lazily in the early summer sunshine.

We bought some 'egg plants' at a car bootsale a few weeks back and put them in, I thought it was strange that when the ones on my patch opened they had no 'yolk' but were very pretty :)

Even stranger is the fact that the same batch of plants were also planted in Jessie's patch at the other side of the allotment, and they have some through this morning, all 'yolk' and no white! :S

My poppies are absolute stunners, I love them! Very pretty just wish they lasted a little longer.

Jessie's little patch is coming on well too, her red sunflowers are shooting up, she'll be over the moon at the weekend when she comes down, although how happy she'll be about the fact she has some weeding to do is another matter..... she's being trained up early, age 5 hehe.

I'm also getting a pretty nice little harvest when I go down too, a huge lettuce a day, easily, some of my peas are ready too, yummmm

All in all, I'm over the moon with how it is coming along, I've almost been on the allotment 2 months and I think it's looking fantastic, I can see the potential, and although the weather isn't being the kindest at the minute, my red onions are dry and bolting and the things I transplated from the other allotment, (into the only bed that was ready at the time) is an absolute nightmare to get into and weed, I still get the happy, 'this is the life' feeling everytime I open the little metal gate, onto the higgledy piggeldy path, pop my head around the shed and walk the length of the lottie taking in all the changes since my last visit.

And you know what..... It doesn't matter to me that at the age of 26 I'm the youngest on our plots, that I am a mother of two, have responsibilites, a house and a hardworking husband to look after....

This is the life :)