My allotment update (Feb 13 2010)

what a difference you have made. I hope you all have a good 1/2 term and the weather is good for you. our forecast is very mixed.

Good to hear you are well and have time to work the allotment...we are still under snow here!

The soil looks nice and crumbly, Ian. You have all done well to get so far already. Hope you have a good half-term and that the weather is good to you :)

Great work there - special compliments to your under-gardeners!

;-)))

Thank you all,
SBG, the forecast is for rain increasing all next week!
HW, I do sympathise with you, I know USA as a whole is suffering badly this year with snow.
Gee, The soil is excellent. It had a good layer of manure dug in last year!
Spritz, I think they had a great time, even Carol was laughing when she kept falling over while trying to dig!

Useful blog, Ian.
I'm adding it to GoYpedia Weed Suppressing Membranes. :o)

you and the family have done a marvellous job Ian, well done

well done ian and sorry you havent been well, hope your doing ok now, you will soon have veg growing there ;o))

Hope that you'll soon be reaping the benefits from your hard work. Raised beds sound ideal, too. :-))

Thanks again all.
TT shucks! (blush)
Hi Mageth, we still have a long way to go, and I'm so sore today it's taking me all my time just to type!
Thanks San, I haven't been properly ill, just had a kind of flu thing!
Hi David, They should save me bending to low!
Homebird, I might just do that! Lol

you have been working hard its all coming along well........ hope Holly enjoys her half term.....

You did work hard well done to you all, but its getting there.

oh well thats differant ian, get out there and stop whining lol :o))

Thank you all again, again! Lol
Hi Holly, We hope to keep her busy enough!
Thanks Carol, slowly slowly!
I tell you what San, I can hardly move today I'm so stiff and sore!

aww poor you,, its after not gardening over winter ian, its hell first time out again ;o)

Take care to not over do it, Ian! (Though it sounds like my advice may have come a little late!)

I like your idea of the No Digging approach! I had thought of the same idea myself & the bit about raised beds. I have to be very careful with my back - it's stiff at the best of times. I don't want to go through another repetition of the sciatica I had for a few months last year ever again in my life!!!

Your not wrong San. They say you never forget how to ride a bike but I know for sure that if I tried it now it would hurt like h..l tomorrow. Lol
Balcony, I wouldn't do anything that is likely to set sciatica off, I've heard it's one of the most painful things you can suffer from so take your own advice and pace yourself!

Slow and easy will do it..it is spring like here Ian..Our little corner of the USA has been warmer than normal since the end of December..but for us not so abnormal..we are very sheltered here...other areas in our same rain shadow are having fits with the early buds on tulips because the Tulip Festival is not slated until April...big trouble for the organizers...too bad they can not seem to organize Mother Nature..lol...I think THEY need to be flexible. lol..Your work looks great.. :o)

Lucky you Cat, Lol. It's f-f-f-f-freezing cold here again!
I'm just doing a bit at a time and then leaving it a while until my old bones stop aching! ;~))

What a great difference, Ian! Well-done! That's good you can work at your allotment so early..it's February now! :), we still have much snow...
Take care!

It hailed on Henry and me this morning, Ian. Not for long before it turned to rain, but definite hailstones. :-(((

Thanks Uma, we are lucky with our weather really!
Sorry Spritz, I know it hailed on you today but generally we don't have it bad considering we're on the latitude as Canada (Or is it longitude?) Lol Obviously geography wasn't top of my list at school either!

Well just these last couple of months it seems like were having the weather they wished they had in Canada, for the games.