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photos January 2008

Photos taken on the 12th January:

New surround for the squash bed. This year I have bought Jumbo Pink Banana squash seeds! There are signs of life, here, the daffodils are beginning to poke through the weeds.
The rest of the allotment is bare. These three beds will be used for our first early potatoes this year. There are some spring greens still clinging to life. I'll be growing brassicas in the rest of the bed this year too.
The cage will be used to grow strawberries in bags again. We are recycling some old bricks to surround beds this year.
The old sweetcorn bed will be replaced with second early potatoes as we crop rotate each year. The old potato bed will be turned into the sweetcorn and courgette bed.
Last year we grew peas and beans in this bed. They are being moved along to the next bed this time. Our greenhouse, currently empty, in a few months life will begin!