It’s been a busy couple of days at the plot. It started on Friday afternoon when I finished work and we took the kids down to the garden centre. I had been telling them from day one that once I had my first 4 beds in, I would give them a bed each. Since the 4th bed was nearly done, I told them they could pick their plants to go in the beds. Jack went with Sprouts, Sugar Snap Peas and Romanesca Cauliflower. Lucy picked Cucumber, Globe Carrots and Sweetcorn.
Now I had to finish the 4th bed and get the theirs done quickly before the repeated questions of “can we plant them yet?” would make me want to bury my own head. That meant staying late on Friday night to get it done.
I stayed at the plot until 9pm and then went home and watched Gardener’s World. It was as I was sipping my tea and watching Monty Don that I realised how different my life is after having an allotment! After just 2 weeks, I had gone from fighting, shooting and blowing shit up on the PlayStation and watching Marvel movies to digging all evening before having a lovely cup of tea whilst watching Monty Don plant sweetcorn.
This morning, I was back down to the digging and again I enlisted the help of my old man. He set to on the kids’ beds and I finished bed 4. He left after lunch but I carried on. Finally at 8:10pm this evening, I finished! Not the job but just for today as I am in agony. But bed 4 is done, as is Jack’s bed. Lucy’s has been started, so all in all not too bad. Will definitely get it finished tomorrow!
Now I’m soaking in the bath dreading my 6am alarm to go to work before going back to my plot later in the afternoon.
Allotment Life 