I am very excited as my plot has not only featured in an article in Eat Me, a funky new food magazine, but also won a photography prize for 'Best Arty Shot' in Kitchen Garden magazine - they liked my bright poles apparently and called it zany. Apparently I will get a lot of garden goodies - can't wait to see them though a subscription would have been grand too as it's a good magazine for foodies and growers alike.Now is the time to sow overwintering peas and broad beans. The experts recommend sowing peas in a gutter. This apparently allows them to develop and get strong before the spring. This means earlier crops and better resistance to blackfly. Broad beans in particular suffer from black fly - in fact it can be so bad thatit can be frowned upon to grow them on the plot.
Meanwhile the shed saga continues. After finding out we needed planning permission to have it in our front garden we took it down. Well, actually we got our neighbour who put it up to take it down again. Despite not wanting have a shed on my plot and this one is really too big I don't want to waste it so the idea was to rebuild it on the allotment. It would take up the space of the compost bins at the moment and I will revert to using tardis ones dotted about the plot - all the easier to reach when weeding.
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