The ice plant has real competition from the fiddleneck this year, it's out-of-sight!

The fiddleneck's in flower!

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# 1780Total Allotment Time: 5hrs.
Principle Tasks: Sieving home-produced compost from 'pit' where pond will eventually be, and starting to add as a 8cm mulch atop the asparagus bed. Starting to move the poached egg plants from one end of veg bed 04 to the other. Planting 14 'Golden Gourmet' shallots into vb03. Moving self-sown flower seedlings into the border L-bed (Phacelia & Alchemilla).

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# 1734.11Fortunately, not so much hard work as it looked :)

# 1734.06Making a start on turning in the green manure on veg bed 01.

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# 1669Total Allotment Time: 2 & 1/2hrs
Principle Tasks: Moving self-sown phacelia and limnanthes seedlings. Weeding 'Radar' onions. Thinning out double-sown dwarf broad bean 'The Sutton'.

# 1654Total Allotment Time: 40mins.
Principle Task: Planting the 26 pre-germinated broad bean 'The Sutton' (Sown 7/10/09) into veg bed 03. Mistakenly clearing away the self-sown phacelia from top (gate) end of vb04.

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# 1591Total Allotment Time: 3 & 1/4hrs.
Principal Tasks: Grubbing up last of phacelia from veg bed 01. Grubbing up poppies from veg bed 03. General watering and weeding.