Wow - the past week has passed by at a 100 mph - and I’ve been ridiculously busy, so there has been no time to make updates here on allotmenteer.co.uk.

First of all things are starting to get busy in my job as a gardener - since everything starts growing now - and demand for our services increase dramatically. Side effect - not much time for my plot either!

Secondly I’ve been down with a bug yesterday, saturday, which is normally the day I get to spend getting things done on my plot. This means that there’s not that much to report really!

Sunday morning - and I found a bit of time to pass on a few bits and pieces anyway .

On thursday I was back in college and had a look at the plants I’ve got going in their greenhouses. I’m absolutely amazed at how fast they have grown. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures - but the sweetcorn that I planted 2 weeks ago is now 10cm tall and are beginning to set their first set of leaves. Also the marrows are doing quite nicely. Only just breaking through the soil last week - they’re now small plug-plants - ready to be hardened off and planted out on my plot next weekend!

Yesterday I took my son to the allotment just for him to see the progress of his sunflowers that we planted a couple of weeks ago, and to give all the plants up there a good watering. He has got 40+ Russian Giant well on their way - ready to be planted out next week as well I think. We’ll than plant some more of his seeds - to get a succession of flowers.

The following week I’ll be away on a family holiday - so nothing new will be posted until saturday. Should be good to spend a bit of time relaxing, while meeting loads of new people and having fun with the family.

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