Peach Blossom and more spawn…

Things are really taking off at the allotment. I was excited when we had our first frog spawn in the pond, but just look how much there is now: This won’t all make it to frogs, our pond is too small. At first I was quite distressed to see tadpoles not maturing as the year went on, but then last year when I found the dragonfly on the whitecurrant I looked into the life-cycle of the dragonfly and felt better. … More Peach Blossom and more spawn…

Allotting…

This was our first fine sunny spring weekend so we took the opportunity to do some much overdue tasks at the allotment. Saturday was clearing out the shed, planting the broad beans and some general tidying up, including clearing out the pond a bit. Sunday was clearing out the compost heaps, my least favourite and perhaps most physcially taxing job; no surprise that I’m aching today. But these hard and somewhat thankless tasks need to … More Allotting…