March 'on the plot'

Now March is here we're starting to do more on the allotment.

We've been busy preparing the ground, clearing 'stroil' and unearthing buried corrugated iron sheets, bits of carpet, old plastic sacks and other rubbish.  The corrugated iron sheets will be useful on the allotment, probably for containing the car load of horse manure which we collected yesterday (that was fun!).


The potatoes have arrived and are chitting, ready to be planted very soon.  This year we're sowing some on the allotment and also three varieties in bags on the patio - to compare yield and amount of work involved.  


The seeds we ordered are here.  As we're going away for a week or so at the end of the month, it's not worth sowing many as we won't be around to water them if there's a drought like there was last year.  In 2011 it hardly rained here from March right through until July, although it did elsewhere in England, in fact they were complaining about too much rain!  I've catalogued the seeds and now we have a shopping list for the remainder.  


12 March: 
We've now planted shallots, red onions, some lettuces and potatoes.  
There's talk on the news of a hosepipe ban, so everyone's saving as much water as they can.