Plot 12A Marching - marching on!

Crikey, u'r advanced.I hope the frost doesn't get them! I won't be planting any for a while although only planting Potatoes in bags again this year as had blight 2 years ago!
You must have a nice soil to be sowing already! our heavy clay won't be ready for sowing for weeks yet!
Good luck with it all!

Well done... you are very organised ...
ready for all the crops to grow !

looking good B ! the Fen soil (clay not the black stuff unfortunately) not ready for anything to go in just yet. I have sturon onion sets ready, they do really well here, next couple of weeks should be able to make a start. Good time of year though for us veg growers eh? Great motivation looking at the seeds all lined up in the box ready to sow. I have tomatoes x 5 varieties, chillies & sweet pepper plants all growing well from a January sowing, too early to go into the greenhouse but doing well in the unheated conservatory.

You have been busy B, great job, hope you get loads of goodies off your allotment. You made me want to start on my little veg plot but it is far too cold for me at the moment and the ground is frozen rock hard. Still having to defrost all water fountains for birds etc. frozen solid again this morning. Milder today with some sunshine but still very very cold. Hope you have a good time today getting your plot ready for more planting. :O)

Picasso give a marvellous crop, but need using up before January when they go rotten.

I am now a disciple of 'Moon Grower' so have another couple of weeks before the waxing moon March 25th
26th and 27th will then put my first Earlies in.

Then the maincrop April 23rd, 24th and 25th. Which shouldnt need covering.

Thank you all for your comments, I appreciate them very much. :-))

I've taken some photos of the potatoes sprouting & have now inserted them in the blog above. As they don't quite fill a seedtray altogether I'll try & keep them at home for another week. Being maincrop I had no intention of putting them out till Easter had passed but now I'm not so sure.

As the 'Rocket' are first earlies the sooner they go in the better. They only need about 3 months or so before they can be harvested. As we are having so much cold weather I pulled a little more soil over those that I planted about two weeks ago.

The soil on the allotments is quite loose & the subsoil is gravel & sand. Apparently there used to be a gravel extraction site there that was filled in when the A1 road was widened (it's only 5 miles up the road from us) about 50 years ago, or so I'm told by a couple of blokes that have had plots on there for donkey's years.

Even so after all the 9 months of rain it has been unworkable all winter & that's why I'm at least 4 months behind with the preparation of the plots. It has begun to dry out now but unless I move the soil it won't dry out enough to be workable for several more weeks.

In the summer it looks & feels like grey sand, even so it does give quite good crops even without being fertilized. I'm digging in any compost we have been able to make as well as any horse manure that Gerry can get hold of.