Such a sense of achievement!
This was after one week, of four dedicated sessions, mostly by hand trowel. But I now have a tall spade, which is making the work of clearing the 100 per cent coverage of weeds much lighter and quicker.
Had a lovely trip to garden centre yesterday, and got sweet peas, rocket, tomato, and broad beans for later planting, as they can go in up till end of June. Will get onion sets too. Oh, and strawberries! It's all starting to fall into a proper plan now!
I realised that I need a watering can of my own, plus pruning shears. Things are starting to add up a bit now. I need to work swiftly so might not be able to get hold of second-hand stuff.
I'm enjoying how much more energised and good I feel in body and mind. I feel powerful! I love how much strength I am using, and how undaunted I feel. And I feel so free and happy.
It's an all-consuming interest. I feel such a renewed lease of life. I now plan a lot of things around the weather and around when I can get to the plot (the journey and current lack of shed/storage complicates things a bit). I cannot wait to get to my plot. I miss it when I am away ! And even a recent trip to see family saw me carrying over pots of home-grown tomato and courgette saplings as gifts. Then spending two days cultivating their vegetable plot in hot sun, and planting in the courgettes, plus some potato seeds I had bought them.
On my window sills, I currently have 43 tomato seedlings on the grow for friends and for charity events...!
It's all so rewarding, though.
Recent gardening sessions have been rounded off with ice cool beer, and it tastes so much better for being so hard earned. I love working this hard; in my working life I've always been a dedicated grafter. Other recent gardening sessions have - serendipitously - been rewarded with Prosecco, as there has been news to celebrate at home.
Yesterday, rain stayed away in good timing for my visit. Let's hope that my plan to go along tonight fares just as well.
Inspiration from other plots at the allotment site: