Blank Canvas

By Katharine Capocci on Jan 10, 11 09:13 PM

After a fruitful 2010 on the allotment we start the new year with a virtual blank canvas.
In all honesty, there's an awful lot of work to do, but at least we have notched up a good year under our gardening belts.
The soil has been completely worked over last year and we have a little more allotment know-how, so sowing the seeds this time around should be that little bit easier.
On our last wintry foray, the plot was pretty bare and dismal looking, if I'm honest, the soil rock-hard. A very few hardy souls were out tending their patches.
We dug out a few turnips for casseroles and checked out the raised bed of leeks. The fruit trees are hanging in there, and the shed is still intact after all the snow.
Still, can't help feeling hopeful that we can get cracking anew in a few weeks' time. Now where did we put those spades...

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