Today's work

Nettle tea preparation

So today Will and I went to the allotment in the morning and did a bit of work on it.

My first task of the day was to inspect the plants and how they are growing.

The potatoes are coming out nicely, so are the garlic and onions. The tomato plants and getting a nice dark green colour. Rocket and radish are coming out too.

On the not so good side, the courgette plants don't look very well. I think they are lacking a bit of water, but they'll be fine once they settle down in the soil... The lavender doesn't look very healthy either, we'll see.

Then after my inspection, I put the gloves on and went in the surroundings to pick some nettle to do some nettle tea. I shredded the leaves in a bucket and poured water over. Then I sealed the bucket and will leave it rot for some time. once it's ready, it will be used to fertilise my tomato plants...

Once this was done, I planted some strawberry plants, yeah! 16 plants all together. They probably won't give a good harvest this year but I can't wait for next year and the strawberry jam I'll be able to do. I have also 10 plant in the post from Gardener's wold offer. Can't wait to plant them down.

While I was looking, chatting tot he neighbours and doing my nettle tea and planting my strawberries, Will was very hard at work and placed 3 patio slabs in front of the shed and did some more digging.