We have been allocated the job of getting potatoes and beans ready for the allotment. We had already started the potatoes chitting. A total of two hundred made up of a third red fir apple and two thirds maris peer.
We have now potted up bean seeds. We have potted forty each of stringless runner beans, dwarf runner beans and broad beans.
The scale of an allotment plot is quite different to our small veg plot in the garden. We have always bought bean plants as we only needed a few. For an allotment plot we need to grow from seeds to keep the expense reduced and the number produced increased.
Our front bedroom has become a greenhouse.
Chitting potatoes and planted bean seeds
Runner beans, dwarf beans and broad beans
It is odd seeing the veg on this scale and quite different from our previous experience in the garden.
D and T also have items starting from seed and later some things will be planted straight onto the plot.
It will be interesting to see how our first year turns out and we are looking forward to it.
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My goodness, you have been busy. Wonderful.
My next allotment post will show how it looks now. It is coming along nicely.