A late night last night as Nat & Hannah stayed up to watch Red Nose Day Comic Relief. We dropped Hannah off at ballet and then the three of us went to the allotment.
It was a lovely sunny day - Meyricks first time up there this year.
The cabbages we planted have made a good dinner for something - good job we have some sprouting brocolli at home in the greenhouse, its about an inch high at the moment, to replace them with.
Nat raked what we dug over a couple of weeks ago and then planted rows of onions - still got two bags left so hopefully Hannah and I will plant them tomorrow after rugby.
Meyrick and I just dug -- couch grass is hard work. Then we moved 6 slabs up to the top to make a base for the shed which I hope to order in a few weeks.
At the top of the allotment we have quite a few trees that are all coming into bud, along with some black current bushed, a gooseberry bush and strawberries. Its all very overgrown so I think this will be next years digging project.
Wayne on the next plot kindly gave us some parnips and some handy hints on how to grow them - can't wait to try as we all love roast parsnips.
At home, we roasted the parsnips, along with a few other roots, but unfortunately they were a little burned. Still tasted good and next time we won’t put them in for quite so long. Saw one of the best things from |Comic Relief later –[ Lets Dance for Comic Relief. This was won by Robert Webb (of Mitchell & Webb) who did an incredible interpretation of Flash Dance. See below:
