The second long weekend in a row following Easter last week has allowed a bit of extra allotment time, despite the extra golfing commitments that come with bank holidays.

Friday was Royal Wedding day today, so we used our holiday to get down to the allotment to do the final earthing-up of the potatoes to continue our war against mice (Jeyes fluid today) and to plant out the next batches of sweet corn.  The allotment is starting to look very good now and we are quite proud of where we have got to so far.

After the allotment, we went to the garden centre, where I Joined the garden club enabling us to buy the half price “giant cloche/mini poly tunnel”.

Yesterday we set off for Princes Risborough (http://www.briantsofrisborough.com/) to investigate fencing supplies and came back loaded with posts, wire fence, wire and staples.

Today we cracked on with potting-on the delicate plants, peppers, gherkins, tomatoes and aubergines.  We now have window sills full of various sorts of plants and plenty hardening off on the patio.  We have lots of marigolds and a few dahlias from the saved seed so are getting the raw material together for our floral gateway.