Making tunnels

Had a "flexi" day so managed to spend some time up at the allotment today - got some covering in place for the cabbages and did some general tidying. The cabbage patch which was dug over the weekend now has a tunnel made from 20mm MDPE pipe stuck onto canes which are in turn stuck into the ground:

Into this we planted cabbages ("hispi" [pointed spring cabbage], "golden acre" [white cabbage]), cauliflowers (generic, "all year round") and some salad, before covering with enviromesh and using bits of pallet (what else?!) to hold it down:

Also did a little more digging and also strimmed some of the paths to make for easier allotment circumnavigation (also a nice view of the windbreak)

So the plot is starting to come together now - from the NE corner facing SW looks now like this:

... including a second section of pea netting to grow some beans up, and the newly cleared area which will soon contain wild flowers, both on the left hand side. Starting to have some space worries, in that we still have a lot of plants to go in including sweetcorn, squash, 100 more onions and leeks, but it's not immediately clear where these plants are going to go (feel a double-decker allotment coming on here!)