the pollen gardens

fruit bushes and water

Blackcurrant bushes

The weather so far this winter has been what you could say wet, most day’s it seems to rain at some point though we are very fortunate in so much as we aren't living in an area where the water has entered into our living rooms uninvited. Even with all this rain the soil at the allotment is keeping well drained, the paths between the beds on the other hand  have become waterways. A couple of weeks ago we planted 3 Blackcurrant and 3 Chuckleberry bushes, hence how I found out how good the soil was by talking to all the worms that came to see what I was doing putting a spade into their world, something we are trying to do as little as possible of this year.  

As you know last year we moved lots of soil to create an allotment with plenty of edge and no dig beds moving away from what has become the traditional straight line growing method of British allotments. Our aim is to grow food that is far beyond organic by growing using pollycultures. In the coming weeks we’ll talk more about what we are going to be planting and why but for now we just wanted to share a few photographs of what January has been like.

more rain to come

a little wet