It’s been gorgeous weather on a Bank Holiday for a change, and I hope you managed to spend as much time in your allotment or garden as I have.
Since I’m now the allotment site secretary, I was able to get advance notice of which plots on the site were becoming vacant, and I have bagged myself what I think is called a “project.” 
As it’s getting towards the time of year when people think about planting potatoes, I thought I’d post my thoughts about how to get the best crop of home grown potatoes.
Time for a little bit of a catch up I think, since I have been a bit stingy with blog updates recently!
Both myself and @luckylottielisa have been busy bees over the weekend.
This weekend’s plans were scuppered by the typical Bank Holiday weather, so the idea of moving all of the seedlings down to the allotment to be planted had to be put on hold for another week.
I desperately need more room in the greenhouse, but the temperature dropped like a stone everytime it rained or started to hail.
The lottie is taking shape, but there is still so much work to be done.
The encouraging thing is that stuff is starting to grow, so Spring has sprung by the look of things!
Another milestone today, as the first crops were planted in our plot.
We spent the majority of the daylight hours at the allotment this weekend to try and make a start on it.
Hooray – it’s time to start chitting my potatoes! The garden centres and seed merchants are selling or delivering seed potatoes as from now so why not get stuck in and start yours off. I headed to the garden centre last weekend to buy mine.
I went for ones that said they had good blight resistance. I’ve never normally had problems with blight (famous last words!), but I have been warned by the other plotholders that this site has suffered in the past, so I don’t want to take any chances this year.
Achiltibuie Garden – Hydroponic Growing Kits
Dartmoor Chilli Farm
Greenhouse Sensation
