Preparing Allotment for Winter

Winters upon us and it seems  I've got so much work to do, even the new plotters some who achieved so much in their first season have gone off the boil.

 

Everywhere I look bean poles sag under the weight of the remains of the dying bean plants, while gangly sunflowers hang their seedy heads in shame. The un-mown paths, scattered with windfall apples, the place looks and feels a bit deserted.

  

I put my potting shed up about three weeks ago so it's safe to say I've been a little excited, but it's been half term for the kids this Week, the wind's have arrived  and as we've seen they've been high and Very dangerous, so I chose to entertain them at home rather than drag them over the allotment lol.

I already sourced some horse manure before the half term and got the strimmer out, cut the new growth of grass and weeds back.  I've also already got into the habit of throwing home waste on the compost which has included tea bags, egg shells, cuttings from fruit and veg (uncooked), grass cuttings from the front and back garden etc, all of which should go towards making a lovely compost. I've already managed to source some scaffold boards to create some raised beds.

 

I've got some winter onion's to plant, and I'm looking to source autumn garlic bulbs winter cabbage the list just goes on. The children will be back at school next week so if it rains then so be it, I'll have a week to throw myself at it, "wish me luck I'm gonna need some".  ;~)