Spring & a new start to the growing season on the plot

You've achieved a lot and it all looks extremely neat! It's a nice idea to have a few bulbs to brighten things up at this time of year too.

I hope your beetroot does better than my first and only attempt which resulted in no crop at all....

You do seem very organised Balcony and have achieved a lot despite not being able to get down to your allotment very easily, the weather has been causing a lot of problems hasn't it , one doesn't know whether to set or not as regards potato's, we get a couple of good days and then it turns nasty again, not sure whether we are coming or going really but not as bad here as elsewhere and for that we have to be thankful.
Hope you get your health issues sorted and also that Gerry has improved enough to join you more, I enjoyed reading your blog and hope to see more, you never know you might even be able to sit down and admire your plots amidst glorious sunshine soon, we all live in hope, lol.......

sorry you have not been well and I hope you get your bladder sorted.
your early sowing has certainly paid off. now take it steady at the allotment wont you.

I may be thick but what is the NH ?

Sorry to hear about your health problems. I hope it can be treated soon.

Now that's an idea - I could start my onion sets off in trays ...

Good luck with your allotment :)

Thanks for the comments! :-))

Steragram, if the plot looks "neat" it's only because there is practically nothing growing in it at present, well, apart that is from the fixed, permanent planting like fruit trees & bushes & the Asparagus. Gerry has been digging it over & adding some horse manure.

I really don't anticipate problems with the Beetroot - seedlings or seeds. I seem to be able to get quite decent crops without doing anything special. I'll see if I can get some better photos the next time I go down so you can, hopefully, see the seedlings I planted out. Who knows if the seeds have sprouted as well by then!

Thank you Lincslass for your concern for my health. I'm waiting on the report to come through the post but it will show they have found nothing to be concerned about. I've managed to get an appointment to see the urologist but it won't be for another month yet!

I've done practically nothing this year on the allotment - it's practically all Gerry's work! He's done the digging & clearing out of last year's remains. I can only claim credit for the raised bed where I sowed the Beetroot & planted out the onion sets!

Thank you also, Sb, for your advice on taking it steady - if I take it much more steady I'll spend the rest of the year without lifting a finger on the allotment! LOL! :-D)

Hywel, "NH" means the Northern Hemisphere! As I talked about spring having sprung I thought it was clear! I wonder if anyone else thought the same as you but was too embarrassed to ask???

I'm glad you like my idea of starting the onion sets off early! But I would advise against planting them in a seedtray as I did - if they are left long all the roots become so entangled it's almost impossible to separate them without damaging them! We will have to wait & see if the damage I did to the roots has a detrimental effect on the onions later on.

What I should have done was to have put them in small, individual black pots like I did the very first year I started with Gerry. That was 7 years ago & I'd never grown onions before. I put 1 onion set in each small pot, (about 15 square pots fit in a standard seedtray), I later planted them out in Gerry's allotment & they didn't do bad at all if I remember correctly!

Since that year I've always planted the sets directly in the ground (except this year of course!) & I generally have had some very good results!

Thank you for your wishes for recovery from my illness! :-))

I didn't understand, but I'm just thick ! lol ...

I've planted my onion sets in little pots. I usually put them straight into the ground. Maybe they'll do better now.

Hope you get better results, Hywel!

I didn't get NH either but my OH suggested its meaning. but I was going to ask so you were not alone Hywel.

I'm glad it wasn't only me. I don't feel so bad now :)

I planted the onions today Balcony :) They're in a Perspex shelter now.

Please don't anyone be embarrassed by the meaning of a word you don't know or a few letters, just ask, I for one won't be offended! At the moment of writing it's so easy to get trapped in one's circle of thought & it can be so obvious that, as they say "a child could understand it!", but we need someone to bring out the "lamp" so everyone can see what is meant.

Please don't leave it to Hywel alone to "stick his oar in" I always try to be helpful so if anything I write isn't clear just "ASK!" LOL!

Pleased to hear you've planted out your onions, Hywel. :-)) I hope you get better results this year. Having had a bad chesty cough develop into bronchitis I haven't been down to the allotment since the day I took the photos in this blog! For that matter I've hardly put a foot out of the house for nearly a week! The longest I've been out of the house was to go to the doctor's on Tuesday - about an hour. Then only because they refused to send a doctor to do a house visit even though my wife & I felt so bad we didn't have the strength to go out!

Today we made the same trip again but for her this time as she had had pain in her ear for a week. She didn't say anything on Tuesday when we went to see the doctor for me because she said she was beginning to feel better. (Remind anyone of the dentist's?)

Thanks to online shopping we were able to get groceries so we haven't died of hunger! LOL!