Yesterday I had a half day course on allotment maintenance at Burchett’s Green (http://www.bca.ac.uk/).  It was inspiring and informative and well worth £27.  I am now planning to get some late peas in for autumn harvest and bought some Brussels sprouts from the course leader to see if we can get some for Christmas dinner.

One of the encouraging things is that with our accumulated experience thus far, we are generally doing the right things, so the course was more about additional ideas than learning from scratch.

We got up fairly early today and headed off to the allotment (with a planned set of tasks – as advised at yesterday’s course.  We prepared an area for the autumn peas, planted out the marigolds for the flower gateway and weeded the sweet corn beds.  We also harvested some of the Lady Christl potatoes to make a potato salad this evening along with some beetroot leaves for a green salad.

Once back at home I planted a batch of pea seeds in root training pots to allow easy transfer into the new bed in a few weeks.