Anniversary Post

Well, to those of you who thought I would never make it, here I am. The Garden Adventures Blog has been going for a whole year! Yay! We are one! You know what's even more amazing? I remembered! On the day! And actually managed to post about it ON THE DAY! Phew...

Busy day yesterday, baking for the church fair (chocolate chip oatmeal cookies from the American Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, and Nigella Lawson's damp lemon and almond cake, with a mascarpone & raspberry icing. Yum!) It was a good fair, complete with bouncy castle and fire engine for kiddies to have a clamber on and try on helmets etc. Made even more exciting by the fact that it had to race off after about an hour for a real emergency!

This afternoon I took the boys down to the allotment (remember the allotment???) to do some digging, weeding and *gasp* planting! I planted my remaining potatoes (very late, I know) and we put some cabbages (given by a kind allotment neighbour) into one of the raised beds that we have finally built. Finally! We are growing something down there! First it was the heavy lifting of the carpet, followed by months of mud, followed by trying to get my own garden veg plot going... one thing after another and nothing going on down at the allotment. But at last we aren't complete slackers.

Our allotment next door neighbours (who have the other half of our plot) have been down in force, and have laid paving slabs for a path and a shed/greenhouse base, and put in a raised bed of lettuces and put a fence between our side and theirs... and it all looks very weed free. But I heard there were 20 of them, not 2, plus 3 kids. Although my 3 did a good job this afternoon, pulling off all the flower heads off the weeds, so they can't set seed, and gathering up random rubbish (carpet, nails, glass etc and taking it to the skip which is on site for the moment...) So they had 10x the manpower we did... Trying not to be envious... Not doing very well. Ho hum.

Anyway, that's it for now.

Happy Birthday to me!