A Christmas Harvest

Today has been our first visit to the allotment for well over two weeks, due to the icy weather – but today it was a squelchy trip across the field but the allotment site itself was really none the worse for wear. The sprouts are looking good:

Whilst there, K mended one of the beds and I did more composting. I also cut back the roses and the now all-dead flowers (even the cosmos didn’t survive the arctic conditions!) and have removed the gazanias entirely as they’re just hopeless as cut flowers. I’ll probably replace them with more alstroemerias at some point.

We also did some mulching and here is the newly-mulched perennial bed:

The harvest of the day is of course sprouts, so LOADS for Christmas lunch tomorrow!

Have a wonderful Christmas, everyone!

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Composting Galore

We finished off the remainder of the composting today and managed to get it all into the bin – we’d left it so long that some of it was forming its own compost outside the bin already, LOL! So it may not take too long to rot down. The good news is that both our secateurs are fully mended and doing an excellent job of cutting things up.

Here is the fresh compost for you:

And here’s the compost from last year (we have two compost bins on the allotment which we use in rotation), which we hope to be able to use later this year for protecting the dahlias, and anything else if there’s any left over:

The one-year old compost is quite dry (as you can see from the pic above) so we gave it a quick soak before putting the lid back on.

Apart from that, there’s not much to do around the allotment of course, but the nasturtiums are still looking beautiful:

And we have a small harvest of sprouts as we’re now saving the rest for Christmas:

Just enough for Sunday lunch. Have a lovely Sunday, everyone!

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