Death And destruction

I have to say its a bit ironic that the last post was praising the rain arriving this post has to be the opposite.

This is the other side of the river. the orange Shed is mine.

This is my neighbours shed under water

The water is above the level of my plot. The bank can hold it back but... Water rises out of the ground. and comes off the field  this is the plot closest to the river. He rotovated this last week when the hose pipe ban was is full affect

I am hoping that we have not lost our Potatoes. as you can see they are under Water. As someone pointed out if this was 2 months ago it would not have been a problem but now with a few hundred pounds invested in the crop all we can do is hope and pray

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Rainy days good for the garden

Well It has been raining most of this week so I have only been down to the site for quick checks. John and I went down last week, He had visited the site a few days before and added Broad Beans, then we planted about 12 leaks and 150 onions sets (they really didn't photograph well).

On a further inspection trip I started to see some of the early potatoes have started to show. I am really getting excited about having some new potatoes. it is going to be the first crop out of the allotment.

Leaks Planted in Rows with Onions in the distance

Broad Beans with the shed in the back ground

This is the first "Show" on my early Potatoes

And Some more potatoe close ups

At the base of this redcurrant cane you can just see some new growth

And here is a gooseberry starting to grow

New growth and drought

Popped down to the allotment the other morning. Its nice to see some new growth on some of the plants. Thought I would post some to show you. Its funny that you put a dead looking stick into the ground and a bit of water and a few weeks pass and suddenly ... New life appears.

The last picture is not of my allotment but of a huge puddle I had to cycle through on my way to work yesterday. It has rained so much over the last few days that parts of my path is under water. It got me thinking how much rain will have to fall before they stop the hose pipe ban. Has anyone heard what percentage of our annual rain has actually fallen in these last few weeks

Allotment news First Post

Today we finished in the allotment. Digging the final patch of couch grass out. We then planted about 130 main crop potatoes. Really did too much especially John

John Rakeing out the last of the soil

We finally finished planting the potatoes, The light soil is 5 row's of early potatoes. They went in about 3 weeks ago.

The darker soil is the new Potatoes that we put in about 7 rows