Allotment

We have got an aplotment, at least I call it that, but Mummy says it is a half allotment plot. I like going there and getting muddy and squelchy. My boots get really heavy with all the mud from the puddles I play in.
When we got our shed I helped Mummy and Daddy put the paving slabs flat by bouncing on them. I did a good job and bounced on every one of the slabs and showed Daddy where they weren't stable.
Grandpa helped Daddy put the shed up on top of the slabs. I went and helped with my measuring tape and showed them where they had missed the nail holes. It took them a long time to do.





I have lots of plans for our aplotment and want to grow sweetcorn, asparagus, beans, carrots and potatoes to start with but Mummy and Daddy seem to have some plans too.












Didn't you know on of my jobs is to hunt for bugs and interesting animals. I thought this was a Mummy frog giving her baby frog a piggyback. Mummy explained that it is a Daddy and a Mummy frog mating nad htat the Mummy will go and put frogspawn in a pond. They were int he way of hte paving slabs and made a horrible squeal when I prodded htem out of the way of the concrete. In the end Mummy put them on the spade and moved them somewhere safe and I watched to make sure they stayed safe. They disappeared when I was not looking. Mummy thought they moved on purpose because they had been squeaking at me.

Mummy and I worked really hard at making plant pots out of toilet and kitchen roll tubes htat she has been saving in bags for ages and ages. Mummy says we can plant them striaght in the ground when the seeds are ready and the roots will grow through the cardboard. Daddy helped me plant beans and peas and sunflowers because the bees need the pollen and to make honey and one of the people at the allotment has got beehives. Didn't you know you cna keep chickens on the allotment and the man next to us has three plots and he has chickens too.
Sometimes we see him collecting eggs and tucking the chickens in for the night. He has cockerals too and they are in a shed at the bottom and we can hear them when we are working on our plot.
Susan has the other bit of our plot and she lets me come onto her patch and look for bugs and things. She doesn't like spiders or frogs and has lots of them.








Grandma and Grandad gave me my rake for Easter and Daddy dug a bed for the carrots nad told me they need raked soil so I used the rake to break up the big bits of soil and he planted lots of seeds.
I have to do lots of work and I am the trudger. I have a pink watering can. My best colour is pink so it is just for me. I used to have to trudge a very long way to the water butt. Mummy makes me wear my waterproof trousers because a lot of water splashed as I carried it. Now there is a nearer water butt that I can reach into and it glugs water back in when I take water out so it is always ready for my watering can.



The best bit so far is the strawberries. They already have flowers on so we will have strawberries for me to pick and eat. I might let Mummy have some because she likes strawberries. I helped Daddy take all the sticky bits off the cardboard from Mummy's pottery delivery and put it on the soil to make it warm and stop me having to do weeding.

I got cold planting the strawberries but I will eat them. We have a cupboard in our shed to keep things in. Mummy is gong to find a biscuit tin to put custard creams in for when we have been working hard at the plot. Last time we had jaffa cakes which are yummy and give me a chocolate smile.

Look at all the flowers full of pollen for the bees to make into honey and for the plant to make into dtrawberries for my tummy.