Seamus, Paulene and I have just taken on Allotment 28a at the Dulwich allotments. It needs a lot of work and some tlc but hopefully with three of us putting in some back breaking hours now, we should get on top of the worst of the grass and weeds in the next week or so.
Seamus and Paulene spent a couple of hours last weekend digging over an area so we could get some potatoes in, Paulene and I continued digging this weekend as well as clearing an area towards the back of the plot.
Today is May 4th and the three of us visited 28a together for the first time. Paulene and I showed Seamus where we had found Horace (the hedgehog) sleeping peacefully underneath some plastic roofing, curled up in a tight ball in some leaves....
He had thankfully decided that he wasn't going to get much more peace and quiet with us lot around so he had left his bed.
We cleared an area at the back and built our tool storage box, great to have it up so we don't have to carry tools back and forward each day. We listened to Gregory, the local woodpecker, tapping away while we were there, the sun came out a few times but it was mostly cloudy with a nice breeze.
While digging I found some fennel so replanted it in a different place. Paulene replanted some bluebell bulbs that were being trampled while we put up the tool box. I picked some nettle tops and made a fairly successful nettle soup for dinner, one of Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's recipes, I found it on the BBC website here.
Hopefully the rain will hold off tomorrow and we can get a couple of hours work in.
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