It has been a slow Spring weather-wise but things are happening on the  Allotment. 

We are experimenting with strawberry containers this year.  We have an old kettle, a watering can, an old tyre, a wine carrier and an ice bucket.  Someone found an old beach bucket and we are also using our old broken coffee maker from the centre. We have filled the containers up strawberry plants.  We have also been sowing lots of seeds including:  tomatoes, chillies, peppers, squashes, courgettes, cucumbers, broccoli and sweet-corn. 

called Jalapeño and they are the chillies you put on pizza.  I used a tray that was split into squares.  I put some compost in each square and I put 2 seeds in each square.  I covered them all with a bit more compost.  I watered them and sprayed them with a mist of water too...”                                                                                               May 2010