First planting

I have finally planted something on the allotment! I have been a few more times since my last post, including twice during the Easter weekend. I mostly did more weeding then. In the forefront are the cabbage plantlings I'd been given. I had just finished when the guy who showed me my patch passed by and we had a very useful chat. First I learned that my half used to be the other half of the plot I share, 'taken off' my neighbour... Second, he said I had to protect those cabbages otherwise by tomorrow they'd be gone, woodpigeons being rather partial to anything from the cabbage family. So it's not looking like the photo anymore, as I came back in the afternoon with some netting and poles to protect them. We'll see how that goes...
I also asked him about the plants behind in the photo, the ones I was wondering about at the end of my last post. They're broad beans... but they've not been sown properly, are too close together, so I'll have to somehow transplant them so they stand a fighting chance. We'll see how that goes too.
He's asked me about my potatoes, so I told him one lot was ready and I should plant these shortly. I'm going to try and do that either at the weekend or next week. Talking of potatoes. while weeding I found some in the ground which looked good, so I have had them in my lunch salad. Delicious!

While I was planting I suddenly heard "quack quack quack quack"! Not the kind of visitors I was expecting on the allotments: a pair of mallards were prospecting :)






Apparently they nest in rhubarb patches... :)