Winter onions update.

Been down to plot to have a look at onions-all doing well-BTW  the bench has been burnt on Helen and Rebeccas bonfire at week end

Got the Garlic today-3 nice bulbes-so will plant at week end .

A Dark murky day in preston--it never came light.

Headlights on

Honda FG 110 Rotor Tilling Machine.

The Honda is a great little machine-some of its many uses are, tilling your allotment [a lot faster than digging ] preparing seed beds for sowing or planting out onions, shallots, peas , broad beans, leeks ect-but the biggest  thing is planting your potatoes-its hard  work digging a trench and back filling-it takes ages, just till a  strip then plant your potatoes with a trowel or bulb planter  add fertiliser [ Growmore ] , then till a row next to it and rake the tilled soil from the 2 nd row over the first row to form a mound over the potatoes, same again for row 2 etc and your potatoe bed is done.

The River Ribble and the allotments.

15 feet to go-then its all done till spring.

Roll On

An other day of staying in as its windy, raining and cold - its 7c outside and the winter is starting early as it did last year , this is the reason i like to get the plot dug over early before the start ot the bad weather.
  The change fom summer to autumn came very fast this year, over night it seems-roll on the summer days sitting on the plot.

Saturday 15th October.

Its been a bad week weather wise-cold and wet so i have not been down to the allotment for a few days
wed was the last time i was down
The battery's on my scooter are not charging to the full capacity  and are getting worn out and need replacing- this i will do in the next week.I went to the plot on Thursday-first time for a week, did a bit of digging-getting there slowly but surely.