Apples & Onions

Father in law bought me an apple tree for my birthday so went to the allotment today to plant it (weather was fantastic too which helps!) It's a golden delicious:

We decided on the allotment as there are other apple trees there and so some hope of getting apples! Planted in the northwest corner of the plot to avoid too much shadowing. Standard "look, digging" photos:

 

Put a decent amount of manure into the hole to give the tree a decent start. It's bare rooted:

However looks pretty happy where it is now. Will need to stake it tomorrow (did not take any string today, d'oh!)

And here's a photo of yours truly somewhere in the process:

You can see the onions on the left of the photo - Helen and Emily were busy planting these while I was making holes. We've moved the cabbage cover over to cover the newly planted onions to keep the pigeons off:

Meanwhile along the onion theme sewed some spring onions in the raised bed which google tells me has been there exactly a year:

Not much to see... overall the plot is looking OK though there's obviously plenty of work to do:

You can see the last of the leeks here as well as the end of the broccoli. In the top picture you can also see where we plan to put some spuds in the next couple of weeks....