Oh god. What a mess.

I intended to clear up the plot a bit today, but I've understood now that its just too hard while I've got all this shit on it. It's as messy as I've ever been. I thought it was great when I first got it that I had inherited all this stuff, but now I'm not certain at all.  Unless I do something with this pile of wood, I must get rid of it. I must rationalize the collection of compost bins. It is a small plot so having all this stuff around makes me feel like someone on one of those hoarding programmes and I didn't even bring it along. Even the pile of pallets, from which I thought I could try and make a bench, appears to have two huge  sections of fencing in it. I mean, what? It turns out I can probably make a simple bench out of the pallets anyway, which will be something so I'm going to try and start on that tomorrow. The first step on climbing scrap wood mountain. The second step will be working out out if I have enough wood to make a small shed, which should use all of it up and if I can't, the third step is to use what I have to make a nice strong bay for my compost bins and get the rest off the plot to make firewood. As for the plastic bins, well... You tell me.

I'm thinking of getting my spuds in the ground soon too, after I saw one of the guys I talk to putting his in. I mean, I say talk to, normally I just nod and smile as one of two or three elderly West Indian men on my field give me unsolicited advice in a combination of English and patois. Today's advice session was basically a lecture on why desiree potatoes (his choice) are better than King Edwards (mine). I didn't understand everything he said, honestly, but his passion for the desiree potato has convinced me. I'm quite grateful to see these  men about , as someone who is on my plot of 99% of the time completely by alone, its nice to see friendly faces and, when I look at their obviously thriving plots, nice to know there are people about who know a bit about growing vegetables. So, desirees. It's too late for this year, but, yeah. Maybe. Anyway, I only have five seed potatoes, so it can't be too onerous a job, can it?
I can already see a difference from my potting on that I did last night, so some of my seedling must
have been very keen to get into new pots. Since the slug attack though, I've been really short of tomato seedlings, so I'm going to try again today. It'll be too late soon. Also, I need to plant more runner bean seeds. I only needed six, but didn't even get that many. I've got three viable seedlings, and nobody plants just three runner bean seedlings, do they, on those bamboo structures. Which reminds me...time to make a bamboo arch thing.
The fun never stops.