I had last Friday earmarked for allotment and it didn’t go well. The trains were balked, so it took me ages to get home, then I had a ton of stuff to sort, then I had to go to the Post Office and it was 3pm by the time I got to the plot.

The problem with November is that it gets dark at 4.30pm, so I had an hour and a half. I planted two new trees (cherry and apricot), for those keeping score that’s five cherry trees and three apricot trees in pots! I have a peach tree to pot up this weekend and then despite the buy one, get one free offer on cherry trees that I was sent this weekend, no more trees!

I wanted to cut back the raspberries and I did manage to do the back bed. I t started like this…

in pots and cleared a bed and did some weeding and that was it.

I cut them down, weeded and added wood chip to the bed and a little bit to the path.

By that point I was losing light, I had wanted to weed this section on path, but it was frozen solid and I couldn’t!

Instead, I cleared the nasturtiums that the frost had destroyed and got about a quarter of the path between the strawberries and the ex nasturtium bed, it was slow work!

That is all I managed! So the plan for this weekend, plant the peach tree, finish that weeding, to sort the blueberries and the gaps in between the pavers that the blueberries live on! I’d like to take the last table in and cut back the other bed of raspberries.

I think that’s doable but we’ll see how I go!