Hi, Welcome to my blog, this is all new to me but thought I'd have a go and chat about the allotment , the garden and our girls,' Dora the explora' and 'Betsie boo' our two new chickens, they are two younge buff orpington hens. well the allotment this is our first year to use it properly we took it over about this time last year and had lots of clearing up to do, it was a mixture of weeds grass, flowers and shrubs. we started clearing right away and made deep beds digging all the soil out to make pathways, so they are like raised beds without wood or anything to keep the sides up, and so far it is working well, we have harvested out first garlic and onions, the courgettes are starting to come thick and fast, we've had the first handfull of green beans some cauliflowers, beets and kholrabi, already starting to get overwhelmed with veg and need to start finding lots of things to do with them, did make strawberry jam today so thats a start,