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

Apologies again for this being a few days late, but here’s my guide of what to do on your plot in September.

I know this is a little bit late, but then again the growing season is late this year as well, so here goes anyway ….

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’

Both myself and @luckylottielisa have been busy bees over the weekend.

Yesterday, the brains of the outfit, (in other words my wife!) said that instead of mindless digging and clearing, we should draw up a plan of where the beds are going to go, so that we only clear what we need to.

The plan for this year is on the ‘Masterplans’ page.

We spent the majority of the daylight hours at the allotment this weekend to try and make a start on it.

Today I’m busy planning what I’m going to put in my new plot, and I’ve decided to indulge in a little companion planting. I thought it wouldn’t do any harm to give it a try!

I found this link to be useful. The BBC website has a good guide to companion planting.

Hopefully it will all work, and we won’t have to use too many nasties to get rid of the bugs that will munch our plants, and it will also encourage some friendly bugs to visit instead!

We’ll hopefully be able to pick up the keys to get into our plot this weekend. If we can, I’ll take my camera and post some pictures, so you can see the ‘before’ shots!