Busy day on the plot

Wow - a whole day of sunshine! I made the most of it by spending almost the whole day at the allotment. I cleared out the shed and took the wire shelving that wasn't being used to the plastic planthouse to be my new staging. A few tent pegs and it was fine. After that, I got my old bath out of the junkpile and took it to the plot. I chiselled out some drainage holes and wedged it so it would be stable.



I sowed:
beans french
broad beans aquadulce
chives
coriander
brussels sprouts can't remember variety
leaf beet (perpetual spinach)
leek Autumn giant
lettuce cos
stock
night scented stock
french marigold
poached egg plant
sunflower
dwarf sunflower
delphinium
nasturtium
hollyhock
convolvulus
sweet pea

I also planted up two hanging baskets for the front door with plug plants (impulse buy from the Garden Centre) and left them in the planthouse to get a head start then repotted a clematis for the archway to the back garden. Now the plastic planthouse is getting rather full.



I used leftover bamboo slat edging to make plant labels.



A very nice bloke from freecycle brought me some bags of topsoil, carried it to the allotment and tipped it into my old bath. I gave him a bucket full of leeks in exchange. Then I scrounged some sharp sand from a neighbour to add to the soil for better drainage. A good mix up and the carrots & salad onions can go in with a perspex cover on to keep the cats out and the heat in.