Allotment

Obviously, not in the right order, but some moments in our first steps into growing our own vegetables.

We are now entering the Cretan Winter.. most vegetables have died but we've been very pleased with our first crops of tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, sweetcorn, potatoes, aubergines, onions, beetroot,peanuts (not enough to make peanut butter, but a good start) radish, lettuce, strawberries, basil, parsley, celery, melons, carrots.........

We'll now rotivate again, that's Geoff's favourite piece of equipment, feed the soil and replant again in August.

We are lucky we have a well near us that we share with 2 other allotment owners, otherwise we would be paying for agricultural water. We made a watering system from black piping which saved alot of back-breaking pulling of buckets from the well.
That lovely looking yellow flower is the bane of all growers here, many names, oxalis, Bermudan Buttercup. It takes over everything and is very difficult to get rid of.