Garden prep

[Geordie_Rob]

I'm planning lots of spuds, carrots, peas, onions, courgettes, pumpkins for the kids, tomatoes, peppers, chillies, sweetcorn, cucumbers, spring onions, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb & if I can find a suitable location, I want 2 apple trees (to pollinate each other) & a cherry tree.

T-oddity from the forum also very kindly donated his old beehive to me so I'm hoping a swarm either moved in, or I can adopt a swarm from a swarm catcher on a different forum. I'm not so much fussed on the honey (though my boy loves it on his toast) or even the wax, I just want a colony of pollinators as close to my plants as possible & I don't mind feeding them (via my plants) if they don't mind feeding me in return (by helping me get a bumper crop year after year). Plus I've always had a fascination with bees, even since I was a kid.

To clarify, this is all for my allotment rather than my garden. My wife would never let me use the garden for something useful. Where would she hang her washing?