Food glorious food

I will have to stay off the wine when updating my blog. My last post was a perfect example. Not violent or aggressive when tipsy just down right flower power how wonderful is the universe.
Anyway .... I actually have something that I can eat and I am going to eat my own grown lettuce this week in a right regal salad! I am so pleased with the lettuce. I didnt even have a slug trap! The cabbage, I thought was going to shrivel and disappear like my spinach did but no, its fighting through like a trooper! The potatoes are amazing and I am a bit embarrassed about the weeds but I am on a mission this week to sort a few of them out with renewed vigour.
I was losing faith a bit because it all seemed so exhausting and without results it can be very disheartening. A simple growth spurt and the enthusiasm is right back.
One lettuce deleted from my shopping list this week and a very special lettuce on my table.
Oops I am on the wine, one before bed... Im such a sad cow I might even dream about lettuce, just wait till the raspberries grow, I will be beside myself.........

What a wonderful dicovery

When I go to my allotment I always feel anxious that I might fail and that my efforts will be in vain. The day is on my shoulders and my work has filled my mind.
After half an hour of sweet escapism on my plot everything becomes simple and clear. Nothing feels as bad and the world seems so incredibly beautiful. I didnt expect this from my plot and only hoped for good organic food. The feeling and peace of mind I get from being so involved with nature is actually more valuable. Whether I fail or succeed is not even the point now as this patch of earth gives me the peace which I didnt realise I craved.

The weeds are rampant

I realised with a sense of real fear that the weeds are going to challenge me. Because the size of my plot I will have to cover some areas rather than to try to tackle it all. Each square will become a veg bed which is so encouraging.
I have taken a brilliant tip from a magazine that I read to grow the things that a really expensive to buy organically.
For example Asparagus, strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, leafy greens and cabbage and brocolli.
Organic carrots are 70p a bag so I wont grow them on my plot. This will be my thought process thanks to the writer in the mag.

Not the best veg bed in the world

I think I am running before I can walk. re phrase I am running why walk?
I have prepared a bed by hand digging and weeding. I then ordered a load of horse manure as the horses at the side of me have departed and laid this all over the soil.
I then planted onions, spinach, cabbage, lettuce, brocolli and cucumbers from little plants I had grown on my windowsill. Except the onion sets of course.
The spinach just vanished?
The onions are looking happy and doing well.
The cabbage is being eaten but fighting back and growing.
The lettuce is growing splendidly.
The brocolli has also vanished?
On a positive note it seems that I will definately be eating potatoes, onions and lettuce this year. Hooray! More than I hoped for.
Next year I will have learned from all of my mistakes and will produce more varieties of fruit and veg.

Raspberries I hope

Please post any comments about whether they look like raspberries to you. I wont be upset if they are not, they were free after all.

My potatoes and raspberries

I am so impressed with the progress of the potatoes. I cant wait to eat one as Im sure it will taste different to a supermarket potatoe. It just has to.
The raspberries were wild from the space at the side of my lottie and I have absolutely no idea when they will fruit. At £1.99 a punnet which I pay weekly I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed for a good supply for six weeks when they do.
To be honest I hope they are actually raspberries and not blackberries I could have planted bramble for all I know. I am optimistic and the world wont end if I am wrong. I didnt expect to be able to produce anything this year so everything is a bonus.