22 March

I went to continue the weeding this morning, but I have no photo to accompany this post as I had to leave in a hurry. I did however measure the plot (pretty much exactly 8x5) and the glasshouse, so I am going to be able to start planning properly.
I had a few nice surprises:

• someone had left me some cabbage seedlings. Don't know who, there was no note
  
• 2 strawberry plants, not much but it's a start :)
  
• something I haven't identified yet which must have been sown by my predecessor (they're more or less in lines) has started to emerge in one of the corners
  

Bad surprise, which shouldn't have been a surprise though, was that water had got in the glasshouse, so making it watertight is going to have to be one of my priorities.

Regarding the mystery plant, I had another go and I would say the smell is fairly grassy, and the taste bitter.

Wildlife: Green woodpecker was still very much present, going from tree to tree. A robin was singing on top of a pole on a nearby plot. An Egyptian goose flew above as well as some big gulls.
Not exactly the allotment, but on the way there, it was lovely to hear the sparrows chirping in some of the back streets, which made me think I ought to get some kind of voice activated dictaphone kinda thing to make notes as I'm cycling along.