At last the winter seems to be finally over!!!

We can start looking forward to a great allotmenting year ahead which promises to be another year of great times and great produce from our plot.

Before we can be really sure that winter has given up we can still do a few things on the allotment to get ready for the year ahead.

• Remove debris from last year and turn the compost heap
• tidy shed
• plan crop rotation for this year
• sort through old seeds and discard any that are unusable

Some crops can be started off now under glass or in the greenhouse. Spring beets and even carrots and broad beans  can planted under cloches or in the greenhouse now and planted out in the next month or so.