Day 40 Dig, Dog, Do.

I know a lot of the time is where I write Our allotment, but today I truly felt like it was our lasses allotment. Our lass did a lot of work today and all I did was barrow some wood chippings up the hill. Now I ain't fishing for credit, just in awe of our lass. 

The dog rose is all in place, and for an added touch our lass noticed some tree trunk/thick branch sections from a well established tree. So I brought them up with the wood chippings and our lass edged the area as you can see in the photographs below. The trench from yesterday was lined with blood fish and bone, the dog roses were then bedded in with compost mixed with grit. We also got a bonus as it seems someone from where got them from couldn't count to ten as we got eleven. Must have been a one more for luck.

Then when our lass had finished planting the dog rose, the potato bed was her next target and with the flash of a spade the lazy worms had the straw part of the manure turned over bringing it closer to them, so this will help more rot down for next month. 

I did also do a drain pipe of peas, in between the trips up and down the hill with the barrow and swept. but the star for today was our lass.

How this area used to look

And how it looks today

Our lass will be happy when the dog roses have grown up to cover the fence and block out the blue.

Can our lass dig it, yes she can.

Before

Day 39 - Tidying one of our corners.

 The freeze has ended it seems and the long term forecast hopefully will be for above zero temperatures, so with this in mind our lass led the way with a job which had been on the agenda for some time, namely sorting out one of the allotments corners. At home we have some dog roses healed in awaiting there new home. As you can see from the series of photographs below there had already been a big transformation before we had started todays work.

How this corner initially looked when we took over the allotment.

We had already tidied a lot as you can see

Surprising what you can find in a seemingly forgotten part of the allotment, our lass dug out what seemed to be the concrete block from a washing machine

Trench ready for the dog roses tomorrow. Helps to tidy a corner and turn it from dumping ground to edge of our wildlife pond area.