The asparagus is getting away, but I still managed another harvest.

Something got to the asparagus. Frisky bunnies chased by foxes/doggies methinks. Still, I got another good harvest.

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# 2555More asparagus!

# 2535# 2534Less than a week and they had shot up again.

# 2527# 2526The asparagus had flown away in the sunny weather.

# 2503First cutting of the year!

# 2484The asparagus is showing!

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# 2376# 2375How the allotment looked at 5am-ish whilst cutting back the asparagus. Don't ask! :)

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# 1865My first takings of the year. Maybe I could of cut a little deeper?

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She's Out!

# 1452# 1451# 1450# 1449# 1448# 1447# 1446# 1445# 1444# 1443Total Allotment Time: 3 & 1/2 hrs.
Principle Tasks: General weeding. Mulching the last of the potato bed (VB03). Planting three 'Tiny Tim' tomatoes into VB02.

PS. Unfortunately, times continue not-so-great for me (physically, especially). I'm a case of Pseudo-cushing's syndrome, or I've got what's called a Pheochromocytoma (the latter, me hopes) :) Honest apologies therefore for my inability at present to reply quickly to comments posted.

First Harvest 2009!

# 1412# 1411My first real harvest of the rhubarb and asparagus. I can't wait to get them home!

# 1410# 1409How they looked prior to cutting.

# 1408The potatoes are also making a flying start.

# 1407A common lizard sunning itself on the old turf mound.

Total Allotment Time: 2 hrs.
Principle Tasks: Sieving compost and applying as a mulch on veg bed 03. Continuing tidying up the old growth of the border L-bed.

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One Down?

# 1147.10I've a bad feeling that I've lost one of the asparagus (or should that be asparagi?) Only one of the two crowns nearest the globe artichoke at the top of the picture has so far put up a spear. Are they incompatible, or is it only that the artichoke is taking up more moisture from the soil?

# 1147.09The 'Epicure' potatoes are all looking good though. My finger's are crossed that frosty mornings are behind us.

# 1147.08How the 'slope end' of the wildlife pond appears now I've decided to go for it (Notice the new label below).

# 1147.07The seedlings I brought up from home today. Clockwise from top left: 7 Spinach 'Medania', 3 Carrot 'Parmex', and 5 Lettuce 'Ice King'.

# 1147.06The 'Sturon' onions in veg bed 01 seem to be doing okay.

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Time to break out the bubbly?

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All four fruit/veg beds are complete! Now to finish laying the last of the 'internal' paths (Unfortunately it was too windy to do so today) and then to put my feet up - if only, eh?

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This hoverfly certainly thought so though - She didn't notice my attentions at all! Species? Possibly: Eupeodes luniger? Something spooky about grape hyacinths? - I'm beginning to agree! :o)

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The asparagus is showing!

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How the rhubarb looked prior to mulching..

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.. and one of the blackcurrents after (hmm.. ever the neat and tidy?) :o)

Total Allotment Time: 2 & 3/4hrs
Principle Tasks: Completing construction of the wood-edged veg beds! Mulching around the rhubarb and the blackcurrent with shop-brought composted stable-manure.