A hard Working Weekend.

It took me all weekend (including a few beer breaks in the hot sun) to turn this weedy grassy patch into a not quite entirely weed free but significantly less so patch.

I raked it twice but there are still some lumps - I feel a bit like a pregnant lady who didn't take folic acid before the pregnancy and am worried that I may not have given the beans (more french and some Borlotti - my first time for each) the best start in life.

It was really too hot up there for this kind of hard work and no I'm left with a patch about three times bigger than this one in the same condition to deal with before I can plant the courgettes out.

Just now though I'm feeling quite proud of my hard work and hoping that some beans manage to get through.

Excitingly the other plants are all starting to show now. This weekend was the first signs of Purple sprouting broccoli and Brussels sprouts (they look the same just now) and the potatoes.

 It's been windy which is where all the other weird bits have blown in from.

I sieved some compost and planted a bag or rocket seeds.

The allotment was infested this weekend by these guys

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/species-of-the-day/scientific-advances/industry/bibio-marci/index.html loads and loads and loads of them. I'm glad they only live two weeks.