What a fabulously warm and sunny weekend this is turning out to be – and a brilliant opportunity to finally get to the allotment and plant out the potatoes and the 200 onions and shallots whose roots have been bursting out their pots in the greenhouse.
It has been a long time getting here but I think Spring may have finally arrived – and what a glorious start. My reluctant allotmenter hubby was a complete star yesterday, not only rotovating the first 2 beds but planting out 70 well chitted potatoes whilst I – very slowly – hobbled around on my crutches and planted out the onions and shallots.
Hubby isn’t a big fan of gardening, but with my broken toe somewhat holding me back he stepped up and got on with the job and did brilliantly. In fact I got the feeling he might have enjoyed the rotovating rather more than he would ever admit (it must be a petrol thing) and only stopped when a mechanical fault developed.
The only downside to the event was that it wasn’t a ‘root day’ in accordance with my moon planting approach, but I have to accept that whilst I’m temporarily incapacitated things will be done when the opportunity arises. However, the onions were in pots having been planted on a root day so as it was purely a transplant I hope that won’t make too much difference.
So now I can relax, enjoy the rest of my recuperation and stop fretting about how behind the allotment is! The seed module trays are now empty and ready for the first round of ‘fruits’ planting next week and the rest can wait until I’m fully back on my feet.
Happy spring!
