The Farm is dug

On Sunday 26 April 2006 we finished the last of the "digging over" on our allotment....
nearly a year after we had first started! When we got the farm it had been abandoned for about a year, was completely overgrown with grass and bindweed, and had various heaps of junk (scrap metal, plastic etc) dotted about it.

I wish I'd had the sense to take a photo of what it was like back then so that you could see the difference to what it is now. However these photos will be a nice reminder of the bare beginnings of the growing season 2006.

But the digging isn't over yet.... Inspired by what we've read on www.allotments-uk.com we've decided we want to build a small pond to encourage wildlife onto the site (especially frogs and hopefully some newts). See photo for pond site (indicated by the blue area).


Broad beans
Three weeks after sowing, the broad beans are "hatching"! Never grown broad beans before, so here's hoping...