First visit in the New Year

Today we dragged ourselves up to the allotment and it looked quite good, to my surprise, though I haven't been for months, leaving it to the expert in the meantime of course! Spent a good couple of hours planting trees and removing barrels of stones while the youngest made trenches and man-traps.

Planting first two of four apple trees:














Over-wintered sprouts and parsnips:

The ice is still several inches deep in the water butts: