Winter's here!

OK, so the whole Bahrain thing was a complete disaster! The job wasn't exactly as advertised and neither Mary or I were prepared for just how much we would hate being apart. The final straw that broke the camels' back (pun intended) was that there was nowhere for me to grow any seeds! What kind of backward bloody country is that?

Anyway, I'm home now and back on the allotment! Mary had been down and done some tidying up in the couple of weeks I was away. I went down today to just do a little bit of the heavy lifting work that needed doing. We needed to cover over the old potato patch with manure for the Winter to replenish the soil ready for Spring planting. Six bags of horse manure later and the job was done.

We'll just leave that as it is now over the Winter and then give it a good digging over in the Spring ready to get such novelties as blue sweetcorn!

We'll need to order some more manure soon. Once the last few leeks of this year are up we'll be digging that extended bed over and giving that a Winter covering of poo as well ready to turn it in to next years potato bed.

So the only jobs that really remain for this winter now are some pruning of the fruit bushes just to give them a little bit of a tidy up (we were given some excellent advise on this - don't worry about pruning. Just tidy them up a bit and they'll be fine. My kind of gardening), staying on top of the weeding (how come they keep bloody growing over the Winter) and trying to sort out a greenhouse so that we have a bit more luck with tomatoes and chillies next year.