New allotment up and running

After many happy years with my old allotment, 2020 was a chance to start again from scratch with a plot much closer to home. The new allotment is adjacent to the orchard and in shouting distance of home. Apart from the nearness, the main advantage is meeting all teh people who stroll past going round the block. The ground had never been worked and so the first months were spent clearing the worst of the stone from the first beds.

By late summer we had had the first crops (potatoes and pumkins mainly) and test brassicas were in for the winter. We have since been enjoying palm cabbage (Palmenkohl) and kohlrabi. I have used some of the biggest stones to build a small henge / stone circle. It is aligned carefully and bring a smile to passing neighbours.

In the small strip of woodland between the orchard and our garden (near the stream) we have put in a hedgehog house in autumn 2019. For the first time there is a hedgehog in there (the small stick over the door moved). That is a great thing.