We Grow Our OwnThe trials and successes of life on our allotment

Time for a little bit of a catch up I think, since I have been a bit stingy with blog updates recently!

This week, since my greenhouse was becoming increasingly overcrowded, I decided to treat myself to a polytunnel, so that I would have more room to grow what I wanted.

We adopted four ex-battery chickens yesterday from those wonderful people at The British Hen Welfare Trust.

After a back breaking weekend, and sunburn on top of sunburn, we finally finished ‘Chickenopolis’

This weekend, along with the usual weeding, potting on, etc, was stage 2 of 4 of building ‘Chickenopolis.’

Since we want to have chickens as soon as possible, (allotment site rules say we can’t have them until we have been on the site for a year) we thought it was time to start clearing the space where they are going to live.

Today was time for some long overdue weeding at the allotment, but since it was a Bank Holiday, I had to do what everyone seems to do on a Bank Holiday and do some DIY … lottie style