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Thank you for the supportive comments for last week - I really had reached a low point one way and another, and your comments made me feel better and much more positive. 
So, it seems appropriate this week that the theme is Beginnings. We are Beginning the second half of the year; my mojo is beginning to stir out of its pit, and while inspiration is still lacking, my enthusiasm is Beginning to return. I had hoped to take this photo at the Beginning of the day (ie sunrise!) but a very late night last night put paid to that. 
My Beginnings is my allotment.
I've had the plot for three years and it was choked with weeds. Over this time and with help (mainly from Mr JG, who hates gardening, but still helped ) we've gradually cleared the ground. It's been very slow going, and the choice was often between clearing a bit more or cultivating crops on the land we had cleared. But this year despite the worst spring in years, we managed to get most of it cleared and planted. And now, at the Beginning of July, I feel that we have the Beginnings of a proper, grown-up, fully-planted plot. And in the euphoria of returning enthusiasm, I 've made one more new Beginning by downloading from my Flickr instead of my TP Gallery which is getting full, again.
I'm sorry I'm being an allotment bore, but I am quite chuffed with how it's looking at the moment, with broad beans, beetroot, potatoes, onions, garlic, runner and French beans, sweetcorn, courgettes, perpetual spinach and sprouting broccoli. There's still one small area still to be cleared and of course the whole plot needs regular hoeing to keep the worst of the weeds at bay, but at long last there are more crops than weeds.
I realise this is just a 'record' shot and I would have liked to get a better angle, but it would have meant trampling on the broad beans.
Thanks for looking
Jean
So, it seems appropriate this week that the theme is Beginnings. We are Beginning the second half of the year; my mojo is beginning to stir out of its pit, and while inspiration is still lacking, my enthusiasm is Beginning to return.
I had hoped to take this photo at the Beginning of the day (ie sunrise!) but a very late night last night put paid to that. My Beginnings is my allotment.
I've had the plot for three years and it was choked with weeds. Over this time and with help (mainly from Mr JG, who hates gardening, but still helped
) we've gradually cleared the ground. It's been very slow going, and the choice was often between clearing a bit more or cultivating crops on the land we had cleared. But this year despite the worst spring in years, we managed to get most of it cleared and planted. And now, at the Beginning of July, I feel that we have the Beginnings of a proper, grown-up, fully-planted plot. And in the euphoria of returning enthusiasm, I 've made one more new Beginning by downloading from my Flickr instead of my TP Gallery which is getting full, again.
I'm sorry I'm being an allotment bore, but I am quite chuffed with how it's looking at the moment, with broad beans, beetroot, potatoes, onions, garlic, runner and French beans, sweetcorn, courgettes, perpetual spinach and sprouting broccoli. There's still one small area still to be cleared and of course the whole plot needs regular hoeing to keep the worst of the weeds at bay, but at long last there are more crops than weeds.
I realise this is just a 'record' shot and I would have liked to get a better angle, but it would have meant trampling on the broad beans.
Thanks for looking
Jean
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that sounds like a lot of really hard work, but it's paid off nicely. The shot fits the theme well to. Glad you're climbing up out of mojolessnessdom too.
