history of the farm...

Right, so we got the allotment AKA “the farm” way back in May 2011 and I’ll be first to admit we may have rushed things a bit (or a lot)

In the excitement of getting the farm I rather hastily dug out 2 beds and filled them with potato’s and onion sets and, to be fair, we had a good haul of potato’s in September 2011.

I had also built a range of raised beds from scrap decking boards but sadly these were destroyed (along with a few neighbouring sheds) by an arson attack on the allotment site.

Spring 2012 started off well with the addition of 7 x lorry tyres for raised beds (hopefully a little more fire resistant) and some further wooden raised beds built from scrap pallets from work.

A path was laid and barked leading to the main area’s with one master bed on the right hand side of the plot.

This was planted with potatoes, courgettes, broccoli, onions, garlic and beetroot as well as carrots and parsnips in the raised beds J A great haul of fresh veg soon followed at the end of July 2012

 

However, I’m sad to say that on the whole the farm has been WOEFULLY NEGLECTED!!! L

 

Weeds have taken over every bare patch of earth and well as the raised and master bed, the path has all but been destroyed due to mixture of weeds and the recent bad weather!

Apart from few onions left in the ground the farm is now basically no better off than when we took in on 18 months ago (apart from the materials for the pathways and raised beds being there this time)

This brings me on the “Saving the Farm – Season 2, Episode 1 – (Back to basics.. and the beginning)”