As we are already late in the season, we wanted to waste no time in getting some produce planted in the ground! The day after the clearing, we went back to plant eight tomato plants, a carolina reaper pepper plant that had been suffering in the less than ideal climate of the studio at home for the last year, as well as seed the borders of the plot with four o'clock flower and morning glory.
We cleared the far corner of the plot for the tomatoes (which had been grown by a colleague), and used some bamboo sticks as a climbing structure
The Carolina Reaper was planted in a still mostly forgotten corner of the plot, but we plan to tidy that up later.
It had been growling abysmally at home, with most of the lower leaves and any occasional flowers shedding as soon as they start to sprout. We don't have high hopes that it will fruit, but it should have a better chance in this sunny corner of the alottment.
With still much of the edges of the alottment to clear, the rest of the morning was spent hoeing and weeding. Joined by a few friends, we made a toast to this new land with a few beers under the shade of the rose bushes.
A few days later we returned to plant sage and thyme along the border...
...and had also discovered a sack of forgotten potatoes on the fridge at home. Although they are not usually worth the effort to cultivate, they had become soft and begun to sprout, so rather than throw them away we put them in the ground.
Most of the ground still needed a lot of work. Even the parts that had been thoroughly weeded and turned over would be reclaimed by nature within a day or two. During the week, after work we would go dig up and turn over more ground before the sun set - a surprisingly therapeutic activity!
