Tidying up for the Radio Show

Jan & I went down to the allotment today to do some weeding and we managed to weed the polytunnel, which is now looking presentable and ready for some planting.
The white sprouting broccoli plants are looking very eaten by pigeons and I despatched the first slug of the year today from amongst them, we may need to dig them up for the next crop.

Radio Leicester in the form of Julie Mayer (wife of morning presenter Tony Wadsworth or Waddo as he is known) is meeting Mike & I with the Radio Leicester Radio Car at Beacon Road at 10.30 on Wednesday 2nd April and it is planned that we are on air at around 11.05am. The first broadcast will be a scene setting occasion and we may be providing a fortnightly update on progress during the growing season.

If any others of the alloteers are available, come on down!!

A new Polytunnel....... and offspring

Last Saturday morning saw the 4 musketeers... sorry, alloteers... cover the polytunnel with a fresh skin of polythene. The task turned out to be a fine example of teamwork. Caroline and Irene supported us amply with coffee, sausage sandwiches and beer, mopping the sweat off our manly brows. The first picture attached shows the end result. We also have an hour's worth of video footage. However I shall save the alloteers' embarrassment by not uploading it to Youtube: this would only demonstrate to our many readers just how slow the whole process was.

I've been down since then, to plant out some pea shoots and cover them with a cloche (second pic). Both it and the shoots are delicate, and may not survive the harsh wind and chill. If the allotment plot were an NHS hospital, then we would have to enclose the cloche with an incubator - or at least another, larger, cloche.

So there you have it. Plot 41 now possesses a fine strapping polytunnel and its weedy- looking offspring.

Mike