On Thursday I really felt it was time to plant something and I am always impatient at this time of year so the onions had to go in! I had bought them a couple of weeks ago from Aldermaston Nursery. Everyone up at the allotment had recommended it and it was brilliant. 63 different varieties of potato and you could by one of each if you wanted. I bought 3 varieties of early new potatoes. Jersey Royal (although there not from Jersey so are called something else), Charlotte (because my mate Willo has a little girl of the same name) and Maris Bard (because they looked nice!). Anyway the lady at the Nursery was a great help with my choices so I bought garlic, which is now in pots, and 3 different types of onions. I bought Red Baron, because I grew them last year and they were fantastic and made the best bacon and onion rolls I have ever tasted. I also bought Centurian, because I liked the look of them, and just for fun I bought Stuttgart Giant, because I used to work for Porsche and visited Stuttgart once. One day I will hopefully pick my choices on what grows and tastes the best!
And then today I promised Adam that we would sort out his raised beds so 2 hours were spent digging an area only about 10ft by 4ft. The soil was really bad, covered in weeds and strawberry plants, so I decided to de-root and weed and then cover in a weed suppressant membrane and then fill the raised beds with compost. We, hopefully, will fill tomorrow and then he can start his planting.
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