This week on the allotment has been all about building beds and paths.

After more than a month, we’re still at the point where we’re reconfiguring and re-jigging the layout of the plot.

The bed that already contained flowering daffs when we took it over – we’ve decided to plant it up with some more and other different flowering bulbs. We’d like to, eventually, plant it with snowdrops, crocuses, tulips, English bluebells – there’s already some crocosmia there that will flower in late summer. The plan is for this bed if for it to be ever-flowering – as soon as one type of flower dies back, there’s already another coming up to take its place.

Our little robin friend was back again to busk for us – his payment being some fat, freshly-dug up worms!

We came across another small stockpile of old red bricks – we quickly used them up to make another little path between a couple of beds. Next week, it will be down to some serious planting – hurrah!