25. Bad Timing

I'm not seeing eye to eye with the allotment at the moment. Despite, not having blogged for months, I have been going to the allotment once a week. The weather had been preventing me from going more.

Since October, most of my spare time has been spent filling in endless application forms for some part time work. If I had known it would be so "fruitless" I might not have bothered, and worked at the allotment instead.

As my hours have increased at work for a few weeks, the sun has been blazing down on the greenhouse. I had a nice little home made propogator going in the greenhouse which meant that seedlings would grow but not dry out quickly. Now I have a number of dead and half dead seedlings, that I have brought back home. The spare bedroom has been changed from seedling nursery to seedling A and E! I think a few may survive.

On the rest of the allotment, the weeds are growing like mad, I can barely see the onions, potatoes etc.

I'd had delusions of grandure with my tomatoes this year. I was planning to grow some unusual ones, for a change and bought some Mr Stripey and Yellow Sunrise (I think) seeds. However, the supermarkets are now getting in English tomatoes and all I have are about 4 plants of 2 inches tall. I got impatient and bought a plant from Stonebridge City Farm as it had flowers on!

All in all not a good start to the year, but hopefully things will improve. In fact thinking about it, I am sure that I had hardly any plants in this time last year, and decided to make a conscious effort to do more and plant more seeds.

Sorry no photos this time, I forgot the camera.