Bank Holiday allotmenting

This post might stop part of the way through as I am soooo tired after a wonderful day at 28a. Tanya got there first, followed by me then Seamus and the dogs (and their own wee sun tent) then our lovely friend Mistress Val from Skelton Towers. Lovely Val has now been officially appointed as our new Dishonourable Member! Between us we got an amazing amount of clearing, digging, planting and chatting done.

We cleared all the couch grass from the magnificent raspberry bushes, almost finished the tool shed, replanted the cornflower, tulips and hollyhock!!. Whilst digging up part of the plot we found an abundance of jerusalem artichokes, potatoes and something red that we are not quite sure of. We replanted a lot of it and I will be having a huge pot of jerusalem artichoke soup this week.

It really was the most beautiful day today and I for one have burned my back, what with the allotmenting in a vest. It is so lovely to be in the middle of London with the sound of the birds and your hands in the soil....and what lovely soil it is too.

I thoroughly recommend physical labour for the bingo wings and for getting a good nights sleep!!