So it was a rather damp weekend after all. I’m not too fussed as there were plenty of other things to be getting on with. I only popped along to the allotment for a few minutes on Saturday to check that it hadn’t been re-let to someone else!

Our new committee is going about its job with real …. vigor. Any allotment left standing for too long is being re-let. This means there are swaths of new people around at the moment. It’s great really because new people are usually really enthusiastic and happy to chat to you. It furthers my belief that the principle reason to have an allotment is for socialising. The plot next to me has been taken by a bloke with two kids. Hopefully they’ll stick at it and sort the plot out. Without any exaggeration the site was the busiest I had seen it since I joined. I really hope all of the new people will stick with it.

So with all the positive happenings at the allotment it was good to see that Miss M had planted some blackcurrant cuttings. These were from a Newcastle allotmenteer - another plant for free (hooray!). Three were put in in a row, about three feet apart. We weren’t sure how far apart to plant them and I hadn’t brought my book down. We asked Alan, who though three feet sounded about right. We’ll see.

Finally, we dug up the chives that we planted last year. This was the first plant we put in the allotment when we started. It grew really well but we’ve never used it. It’s too far to come to pick when you’re half way through cooking, so I’ve replanted it in a pot in my backyard. It had grown quite big so we split the plant and gave half to our new neighbour. The chives are now his first plant. As they were a gift to us from a friendly allotmenteer when we started it felt like the right thing to do.

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