Day 1: 30.06.12

Hello and Welcome from Sean and Jane's Allotment.

This is our first post, in our first blog for our first allotment!

We intend to document our attempt to turn a 50'x20' plot of land into a productive fruit and veg provider. 

We intend to post about our trials and tribulations, as well as our successes of maintaining an allotment by two working people.

A little about us, we are both in our 40's, both work in the NHS.  We've been living in Kirk Merrington, a little village in County Durham, since about April 2009, or thereabouts, moving away from the city for a more healthy, quieter life.   I make beer, bake bread and enjoy cooking, Jane enjoys drinking beer, eating my bread and more importantly growing things for me to cook for her to eat! That should do for now.

We put our name down for an allotment about 12 months ago and one became available 4 weeks ago, 4 weeks of phone calls and  wrangling strimmers and we spent our first afternoon on the allotment today. We still haven't paid anything yet, signed any contract or documents, but I have the word of a committee man that everything should be fine so thats OK.

We'll post up some photos of the allotment in it's various states of overgrowth and current nudity just as soon as we've downloaded the pics from our cameras!

Here are the photos:

1: This picture was taken before we knew we would be offered the allotment:

2:  This shows how much the weeds had grown!!

3:  After initial strimming:

4: End of day one (30.06.12):