Barbara and Linda's vegetable patch.

I forgot the tomatoes and the courgettes in my greenhouse.

Looks great Linda and Barbara. Pete would be proud.

Well you have been working hard and all looks wonderful. yes Peter would be so proud of the work you are both doing.

From the photos I think you are doing really well with this and Peter would definitely be proud of the work you are putting in. It brings back memories of having our allotment, hard work but rewarding when eating the produce!

Wow Linda it all looks immaculate. It speaks of a great deal of hard work - no wonder backs are aching! Happy cropping!

Thanks everyone. I thought someone would notice the mistakes we are making. Sometimes we look at each other and say stuff it.......enough is enough. Peter's voice is often in my head and Bardara and I have left his hat on a hook in the greenhouse.

Oh wow! I wish you lived next door. Some of that enthusiasm for vegetable growing might rub off on us. I am always complaining that we don't grow anything we can eat. Having said that I have two gooseberry bushes, some strawberry plants, and a blueberry shrub. Can't go very far on those!

Beautifully- set -out beds!

The allotment looks very good, Linda! You look to be doing things just fine & I'm sure Pete would agree!

If you want to avoid so much digging why don't you go digging free? You could cover the soil with lots of cardboard & newspapers & put something organic on top. Wood chips, bark, garden compost, etc. The worms would later drag it down into the soil & effectively do the digging for you!

My son has been talking about us getting an allotment - next year & it occurred to me that going digging free would be the solution for my back & for the little time he has free to grow stuff on an allotment. After all we are really destroying the soil texture every time we dig.

I do all the hard work while Barbara buys most of the seeds and waters everything in the evening. It has been very dry here. Tomorrow will be the first rain in weeks. I think we work well together.
I would love to miss out the digging, Balcony, but there is a tree in next door's garden, which sends out a lot of roots that have to be removed. If it was just weeds it would be different.
I'm sure it will all be worth the hard work.

Look great Linda your both doing a grand job there you will reap your rewards. I had two allotments for years on my own the men on the allotment said I was the best double digger yet seldom did I see them digging only when the frost came which brakes the soil up a lot use to keep putting mulch on top which suppressed weeds a no dig policy and just hoed the paths when it was sunny just chopping off the head of the weeds they said tge sun tgen would kill the rest. You can use straw bales to grow your veg in.

It is all new and exciting 3d. I chop the heads off the weeds too. Monday we are planting salad leaves. I spotted our first tomatoes on Friday.

Yes it is exciting when you first have an allotment hope you enjoy it. I did nt need to grow any thing when I had one as the men kept giving me their veg one gave me a cabbage weighing 14lb I had to freeze it last months.

Brilliant Linda to see your first tomato lettuce comes up very quick .

I hope you enjoy it, Linda! I had my own allotment (well half!) for a couple of years & I helped my fried Gerry with his 1 & 1/2 for about 5 years. I sometimes still wish I had kept mine.

I pop in every day just to look at it. Barbara does the watering.

☺ so you are keeping an eye on it .

Yes watering is vital if the tomatoes split it because of irregular watering.

When I was on the allotment, people always said they like long rows. I still do.

I like neat rows too.