You Take It Easy Sam!

At last Sam returned to the allotment to have a look round....

He really wanted to have a look to see if the potatoes were growing yet - I knew they wouldn't be after just a week but we went to check anyway. The weather was really nice for a change so we had a nice twenty minutes down there.

Sam really enjoyed playing in the wheelbarrow, being pushed around in it and being tipped out. He also discovered that if you lean right back it tips over and rests on the handles (below), hours of fun....he also loved running up and down the communal heap, and found the swan's nest fascinating. I even persuaded him to put his hand inside the compost bin to see how hot it was in there.

So, the potatoes weren't up. The onions? No sign. Lettuce? Nope. Peas? There may be the very first tips poking through the topsoil, I'm going to have a much closer look when I'm up there later today. But the garlic? YES! They look big, Daddy!

The allotments were full of people taking advantage of the favourable meteorology, and so Sam was introduced to Maurice, Sid & Margaret, Callum and Callum's Grandad, Next Door David, Next Door Paul, and Sylvia, her dog Lucy, and Mr Sylvia. We even got a guided tour of Sylvia's patch and we've struck a bet with Mister Sylvia over who can grow the tallest sunflower.....the stakes are high.....five whole pennies....Sam naturally charmed them all.

Half the point of having our allotment is to keep Sam enthusiastic about nature and growing things, and if he's happy with a half hour here and there at the moment, that'll do for me....