Had some spare time today so I got the carrot and parsnip fertilizer mixes done. It`s another job off the list !
The mix is :
4oz Vitax Q4
2oz calcified seaweed
2oz seaweed meal
2oz lime
1oz Nutrimate
The vitax was ground up in a spice grinder but the rest was already powdered. This has been bagged up in individual batches and each batch will be going into the compost mix. (every 30 litres)

On to the next job !

It might not look like much but this was a massive pain. Concreted the path in this morning and then put the gravel in. At least now I`ll be able to get my shallots potted up.
Off to pick up some compost next week so the sieve and the coffee grinder will be working overtime.
On a lighter note, my seed potato order came this week from JBA.
:-)

Am I ever gonna grow anything ?

Did the shuttering for greenhouse base today. Concreting tomorrow hopefully weather permitting. It`s just another job on a long list.
Might get on the polytunnel at some point this weekend

These are the things that finally drove me crazy and lured me into the world of showing veg. This is my PB 749Lb fruit still growing in the tunnel in 2010.
I`m Gonna miss watching them grow this year. What I`m not going to miss are the 4.30am starts so I can put 50 or 60 gallons of water on the plant before work, the endless vine training, pruning and vine burying, disinfecting the fruit every other day and worrying that it`s going to split. Oh, and the 50 quid bags of mycorrhizal funghi.

Sun !

Well it seems that the rain has finally stopped and I have shed loads to do on the allotment. First job is to re-erect the tunnel which was mullered in the high winds before Christmas. It`s on a slope too which means I have to move a couple of tonnes of soil to level things up. Manged to get the ends concreted in yesterday and move some of the soil. Today was spent having the biggest bonfire in Crow Park history to get rid of all my rubbish. (The council are too tight to rent us a skip)
Hopefully, I`ll get the hoops up this week.