Allotment Photos

This picture is looking from the bottom of the allotment or eastern side of it facing west up the slope. If you look real close you can see the small hazel shrubs planted by Andy's fair hand. We hope this will develop into a large habitable bush for all our garden visitors. The rest of the picture shows about half the entire plot covered in card and/or horse pooh, to increase the amount of humus. At the back (top of the picture) the entire bush is one huge Rosemary.


This one is in the bottom (northeast corner) looking Southwest. You again can see the hazels that have been planted along the boundary, the deck that was constructed in order to house our viewing platform and shed is on the top right and if you look carefully the bamboo poles marking out what will be a spiral planting area.


This is the north side looking south. You can just about see the two swales on the east and west side of the cardboard covered area to encourage water to seep down to the water table instead of just running off. The dew pond is clear to see on the right-hand side as well as the spiral planting section (at least the canes marking it). The pile of twigs and other detritus you see in the middle of the card has been left as is as we spotted lots of lizardy, snakey and froggy creatures using it as a habitat.


This view is on top of the decking area soon to have a shed and decking boards down, looking south east towards the sea. This is going to be fabulous come summer with a fair amount of sunshine all day.


This photo is again from the deck area facing due south. This area will soon be covered with card and this spring we plan on planting a typical North American guild of corn, beans and squash (perhaps corgette cos we like it)


This is a close up of what will be a spiral guild of possibly peppers, aliums, tomatoes and carrots. As you can tell from some of these descriptions, we will be experimenting with a number of companion planting schemes or Guilds to see which plant groupings work best together.