Feeling very sad...

Just been over the road to see what's been happening after two days of hideously early starts and late finishes. The horrible fat pigeons have been at my brussels and broccoli... is it not enough for them that they munch through a half ton of bird seed in my garden? 

I need to get some net and cover them all up, but I've got another 2 days of early starts/late finishes and I know they'll had the lot by then.

Horrible fat stupid things.

Even my trusty helper isn't cheering me up...

How's things look today...

Pretty much every morning and certainly every night I go over the road, armed with a cup of tea to see what if anything is happening, and it never ceases to amaze me how there will be nothing to see in the morning and yet by the evening there it is, waving its head above the surface. 

It also never ceases to amaze me how often and how fast the slugs get at things. I'm expanding my vocabulary of expletives...*******.

Nematodes do seem to have worked, together with home made slug collars cut from plastic bottles with pinking shears... not to mention slug pellets and beer. How can something so repulsive require no much attention.

Anyway, here are some pictures of how it all looks at the moment..:

It's even possible to see the shed of wonky shed fame, it's not looking as green and exciting as people whose allotments have been going for years, but I hope given time it'll look greener than it does at the moment.

I've counted round my bean poles and of the 20 seeds planted, only 11 are coming up so far, but hopefully it's still early days.

Today as well I've planted for the second time my Romanesco seeds, nothing happened last time so maybe its the seed or maybe it was the badger stomping over their heads.

This week might be the week for our first produce from our plot, the salad leaves look good, but I'm not sure how big they're meant to be?

It's all proving to be a wee bit unscientific...but I'm having fun and as long as I manage to save something from the slugs I'll be happy.

Greenhouse

I've got a greenhouse, a proper one, not another comedy plastic one (which had impaled itself in the wind twice) Hopefully this one won't require repairing with sellotape! 

Its taken a while, but general nervousness not withstanding, it's glazed and up. 

I've constructed possibly the worst standing for it using the middle pieces of the pallets I made my raised bed with. One leg is shorter than the others and no-ones allowed to touch it, but it works (so far!).

What else....? I was given a water butt which is proving very useful in propping up Wonky Shed, just need some guttering now.

It's the most exciting stage of the year so far for me now...