Tunnel Vision

I'm not happy! Our polytunnel was supposed to have been constructed last Monday but when the team came to build it, the base that had been prepared was too small, and because the weather has been so dreadful, the posts to hold the tunnel couldn't be supported by the land around the base. So the team went home and the garden workers have put on their thinking caps to try and find a fast solution. In the meantime the rain keeps falling, but we can count ourselves lucky compared to all those poor people who have been flooded our troubles are minor ones. We have a new volunteer working in our garden, a young lady from the village who comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays she seems to be enjoying the experience very much to the pint where she's 'advising' the gardener.

Those salad days

Hooray, we have started harvesting our salad crops and potatoes, the boys from the green stuff as opposed to the black stuff (appropriate as we were once a mining community) bagged the first crops and went door to door selling (very cheaply) to the residents. They were met with great enthusiasm and I hope it will encourage more visitors to the allotments to see what else is available.

We are busy preparing our programme of courses for September and have some new and exciting courses including a creative garden design course, taster courses in Spanish and complementary therapies and an enterprise learning by doing course, a business course that encourages young people to pilot business ideas, we have six enthusiastic young men from our community involved and I can't wait to see how much money they can make.