Bugger it!

havent been able to get the allotment for a month to do any strimming or weeding. so the plot is an overgrown mess. So dissapointed with myself for letting it get bad. I have so much weeding to do and i lost all my brassicas just a bit miffed with myself.

I am now 29 weeks pregnant, baby was 3lb 12oz at 28weeks and 2 days. the hospital have agreed to let me have a waterbirth after VBAC but by the looks of it my baby will be too big and the risk too great. Just have to see how things go. I had a 3D scan done at 28 weeks

We are in the middle of decorating our bedroom - i say we but poor Jamie has had to do it all. I can do the painting part though....

will add pictures of everything later

2nd Earlies in and signs of life!!!!

Woo hoo, on Good Friday we got our 2nd Earlies in - Kestrel, the allotment was really busy too with everyone doing the same thing. Today I saw that i have pea shoots, carrot shoots and parsnips coming through I am so excited!!!

Will post new pics as soon as the weather cheers up a bit

Potatoes are in!

Well, we planted our Charlottes and our Red Duke of York this morning, we are planting Kestrels on Good Friday if its nice. And in a few weeks we will plant our mains.


Also got my 12 week scan tomorrow, i'm a bit nervous, i hope everything is ok in there!!

Putting things into perspective

This week has been a very long week of stress. Last Saturday we opened the post to find that our daughter hadn't been offered a primary school of our preference and was offered the a really awful school instead. Saturday also brought news that my FIL's 2nd tumour had come back with cancer cells, and that they will need to go and remove the shell that they had left in his last op. He is still recovering from his last op which was at the beginning of march! Monday brought me more misery when i telephoned School Admissions they told me there wasn't a lot i could do about it! We are appealing and we hope we get one of our preference schools. I was also told by Midwife that I needed to go back to the diabetic clinic the next day because of previous gestational diabetes. I am 11 Weeks. There is no way i have it yet. And they wont even do a GTT on me. Tuesday I was at diabetic clinic getting my blood machine and still arguing the toss. Wednesday was all rain and wind so couldn't plant my salad and 1st Earlie's out. Thursday i went to my WW class and i lost 1.5lbs whoop whoop. Thursday afternoon i got a parking ticket!!! Friday we were up Chelsea & Westminster hospital speaking to Rose's consultants about the inherited cholesterol. They were talking about gene testing, she had more bloods done. The doctor said he would help with the appeal letter.

And today? lots of bloody rain, wind and hail stones! So I cant do anything over the lottie which really helps me de-stress. To make matters worse lots of women on a forum i have joined have had their 12 week scans to find that their baby's have died, this is my greatest fear, i am dreading my scan on 6th April. I can only hope that we have been spared that anguish and that our little bean is safe and well.

Planting has begun!

I have just planted out, calabrese, cabbage, cauliflower and beetroot. Going to go back after lunch to sow some parsnip seeds. Very exciting stuff!! Will take pics later.


I also planted out peas, parsnips, carrots...

5 Year Rotation plan

5 Year Rotation Plan

New Plan for allotment

Potato Bed

I went to lottie yesterday with my hubby and I forked over the beds and then covered them in black fabric sheeting. I also planted the last of the garlic, and added lime to the brassica bed. I also created my 5 year rotation plan. Very pleased with all my hard work. My hubby dug over the area where the tatties are going and built a bed for it too.

2 views of my allotment beds, the lastest one is my potato bed.

A cheeky sign

Fertile? Yes!

Well now I have to stop the weightwatchering because i am 7 weeks pregnant!! Also means i cant do a lot in the allotment and i have now became a bit of a tyrant to my poor husband pointing at the beds and saying dig that area please! Tomorrow we are going over the plot to dig over the beds one more time, adding lime to the brasicca bed and then covering the lot up with black fabric sheeting. Hubby is going to fork over the spare bedding area for my spuds that i am planting in the 3rd week of march if weather holds out. I cant remember what i ordered to be delivered when from the Deflands nursery so want to be prepared for anything!!!!!! Will start other seedlings off towards end of march, last year i started them too early and they all went leggy and died :(

I have also put loads of sand in my roots bed and I have bought my potatoes from Woodcote Nursery. I bought 6 seed potatoes of:
Salad - Charlotte
1st Early: Red Duke of York
2nd Early: Kestrel
Mains: Rooster & Maris Piper

Tidy up

Have been to the lottie today, I chucked the compost bags on to the beds and forked them all over. I then raked over each bed and have left it like that. I am off to B&Q this afternoon to get the lime and sand for the beds. Its all coming together, I am feeling very positive about my plot today.