1st asparagus spear and tomato frame

It's so tiny you can hardly see it, but here is the first asparagus spear.

Also a shot of the tomato frames, also 3 of the plants have some kind of leaf disease, will require close attention.

Salad leaves and broad beans

I've planted a couple of rows of lettuce in the polytunnel. Both rows are at the "Boardley" end, marked with slate markers. There is one row of endives and a row of an Italian lettuce called Bionda Lenta. The endives probably need growing to maturity but the BL's can be cropped as salad leaves. Photo hopefully illustrates.

The broad beans planted outdoors seem to have materialised. So maybe the mice didn't dig them up after all. Second pic illustrates.

The Alloteers get Adopted, part II

Here is part II of the broadcast

The Alloteers get Adopted by Radio Leicester

Here is the video footage of last week's interview on Radio Leicester with the broadcast itself dropped in on top. Due to its length, I have split the video into two parts

Allotment in the snow

Sunday morning 6th April and it snowed. Took these shots.

Our mousetraps claimed their first victim, but for those of a sensitive nature, it has been decided not to publish the evidence. 2 of the 3 traps were sprung during the first night, but no victim, perhaps we left a big rat with a sore foot?

A frame has been constructed in the tunnel to secure the tomato plants, and this leaves a little room either side. I have planted some early runner beans just to see what happens.

Also planted another horseradish root close to the one Mike planted, but 3 feet away, according to the instructions!

Planning on digging up the eaten white sprouting broccoli and planting cauliflower seedlings bought from the market

First shots of the radio show

We went on air at around 11.10am today Wednesday 2nd April. Julie was great fun, has a genuine interest in allotments and made us feel at ease. Mike has got the whole transmission recorded using his camcorder and no doubt will make a copy available for all to see, unfortunately this will not have the studio parts of the conversations, so we are trying to get a recording of the transmission