Its stopped raining.

I can't believe the rain we've had this year, and to think that it's less than a month to the longest day and the days getting shorter again. Anyway, it's not raining now and I've had a full day at the allotment.

Jobs done today

1. Managed to rotavate the man made bog; see my first blog and you'll understand!
2. Planted out the sweetcorn.
3. Sowed two rows of Autumn King carrots.
4. Transferred nearly all of the trays of basil, parsley and brassica's from the green house into the coldframe.
5. Planted another six tomato plants into growbags and wired in growing canes.
6. Cut our first lettuce of the season from the growing coldframe; and had it for lunch. Tasted great!

Things that have gone wrong. Not a bad day only one disaster.

1. Looks like the summer cabbage and cauli's have been infected with club root.

I've had a chat with one of my fellow allotmenteers, a man of many years experience, and he has told me of and old fashion remedy. Sounds strange but worth a try! When dibbling in your brassicas, place a small piece of Rhubarb at the bottom of the hole. He was smiling when he said it, but I'll give it a go!

I've had a go at taking some photos of my allotment so here goes.

Row of peas with spaces, damned mice! I've heard of the old saying "when planting peas, sow four, one to rot, one to grow, and one for the pigeon and one for the crow" but where does the mouse come into it? And they're hungry. The next sowing which you can see under the wire protection are being attacked as well. No problem though, as I've planted in fives this time. So hopefully, no row spaces.

Welcome to "the Bog".

This is the patch that I'd left farmyard muck on top of the winter digging to rotavate in this spring. I still can't walk on it without sinking and I recon it will be at least another two week before I can use it.

Big mistake.

And as for tomorrow.

Will probably have it off as the forecast is for more rain! That's gardening.

This is my first post; I'm quite a novice when it comes to "Blogging" so please bear with me!

If this works I hope to publish a weekly report from my allotment in East Yorkshire with what's growing well and what's not! I don't class myself as an expert gardener, so I'll be confessing to my mistakes and, hopefully, showing some of my best produce.

First confession: I spread a thick layer of farmyard manure on top of my winter digging last year. The idea was to rotavate it in this spring. I'll not do that again. I've managed to rotavate it in, at last, but the land is still to wet to walk on and with all of the rain we've had in East Yorkshire I still haven't managed to plant anything on this patch of land. Lesson learnt. Dig in your manure as you go along during the winter.

I'll be sending some photographs with my next submission.