More lottmenting

So today we measured and planned the allotment whilst T dug for pig bones! The allotments were a pig farm during ww2 and there are loads of bones in the soil....can't quite work out why but there are! T has decided he wants to plant sunflowers, potatoes, carrots, lettuce and tomatoes and peas...... He has never eaten lettuce or tomatoes (cept from in pasta sauces etc) or carrots but assures us that he will if he has grown them so that told me! I have dutifully planned how we can fit the amount of plants I have just bought (possibly more than last year and they were supposed to be for an acre) in our weeny half rod plot but with my trusty calculator and ruler and scale plan of the plot I might have done it. I was working from the point of view of "Whilst it says plants should be placed 45 cms apart, 20cms short of that isn't going to make that much difference and if the plants are closer together then there is less room for the weeds!!!" that's my story and I 'm sticking to it!!!! In tribute to my Aunty Wend we are planting potatoes but proper tubers that we will chit.......(when I work out what that entails, so far it seems to involve egg boxes and peat) Any ways initially it was "hey lets have a go at planting potatoes!" now its "We have 4 different varieties of potato. First Early, Second early, early main and late main............and I have gone for the ones that Hugh Fearlessly eatsitall suggests as he is our gardening guru!!!

So this year we will grow:-
Potatoes
Carrots
Leeks
Broccoli - purple sprouting - oh get us aren't we posh
Calabrese - NOT broccoli just billed as it in supermarkets...hopefully this time totally caterpillar free coz last year it made me feel a little queasy!
Brussel Sprouts
Savoy cabbage
Spring cabbage
French beans - purple and green
sugar snap peas
Cucumbers
Butternut squashes
Pumpkins - giant of course
Sweet corn
Strawberries
Tomatoes
Peppers
Chillies
Courgettes

And they will be in the ground at the time they are supposed to be.....not in May!!!!!!!!
Truck load of horse shit being delivered this week and we'll be away!!!!! yay for horse poo!