Clearing is coming along.

We ve spent a good bit of time on our days off clearing the rubbish and have made a start on the digging.....back knows that alright !

The neighbours have a rotten caravan that we think would be better off cremated and so do the other old hands nearby, but our neighbours think that it is a great shed ! It's not.....its part rotten no doubt mouse riddled and generally in very poor order. The worst part though is that it is encrouching on our plot by about 6-7ft.......so it needs to be moved.
We all tried to pull and push it across the other day to no avail....hopefully they'll see sense and it will be given a decent send off soon !

Not a lot else to add only a quick picture of the plot slowly starting to something like, the path has been mowed (lawnmower now dead though !) and the first bed has been turned over. Hopefully we'll have the first part ready for planting out this week and then bit by bit it will come together.

This is looking from the back to the front before any clearing.

The second pic shows that we've removed the gorse bush, all the old rotten sprouts are gone, the compost bins at the front are no more....we did 6 van loads to the tip but at least now we've a reasonably clear plot to dig over.

The white poles mark the boundry between our plot and the neighbours.....next up is a low fence just to mark it out and keep any weeds at bay from next door.
We ve got a caravan on order so next door will have to get their finger out and move the heap of a van out of the way soon. God forbid a bonfire spreading and burning it down !

Well it s that time of year again.

I can t believe how quickly the first year of the veg garden has flown by ! Nearly to the day we started the veg patch off.....now I ve got the beds all ready to be planted out when the frosts have gone that is.

We not only acquired a new puppy...Buster, well I say new , he's 5 moths old now and an absolute nightmare.....very spirited compared to good old Duke, who is just the perfect pet now, lovely and calm and very soft...bless him. Oh the "not only" referred to the fact that we are now the proud tenants of our first allotment plot. Only a half plot but it is a good size and needs a lot of work....watch this space.

I got the seeds sown into trays and the house window sills are full again....I ve been really looking forward to the garden this year and I m so pleased to be getting things started.

I ll try to put some pics up of the allotment when I can.