Hello , been to allotment today , nice & sunny Finished digging up a bed of first early potatoes 🥔 Cleaned a bed of horse tail and covered with membrane until required
O/H harvested a “few” blackberries , carrots, French beans , mange-touts And a rather good cabbage & courgettes
As ever a few other jobs , pleased that the plots next to me are taken and people are working on them and gave them some courgettes
Full day at allotment yesterday Weeded and covered 5 small beds with Horse manure as unlikely to be using them at the moment and this stops the weeds Dug up a row of main crop potatoes 🥔, nice and clean but as I expected no bigger than first earlies O/H harvested loads , pears , apples , blackberries, peas , carrots, courgettes, French beans and 1 plum We cut some Jureslum artichokes down to 4 feet and pulled a load up , as we have far to many Rest day today
Spent a few hours on the plot yesterday and again today finished harvesting all of my potatoes reports of blight on the site and going into hospital in a couple of weeks so it had to be done, the biggest crop of potatoes that I have had in eleven years of allotmenting they will last into next year with any luck.
My outdoor toms are finishing, the plants giving up, but still picked plenty from them. Emptied the second bag of Pentland Javelin Potatoes, 2kg from four seed ones. These were better than the first bag. The Raspberries are going strong, the french beans finished. Cut back the plum tree. Tomorrow its veg soup making day, so Carrots to pull and cucumbers too ( plenty of them to pick)
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Noticed the Pak Choi has gone to seed
Finished digging up a bed of first early potatoes 🥔
Cleaned a bed of horse tail and covered with membrane until required
O/H harvested a “few” blackberries , carrots, French beans , mange-touts
And a rather good cabbage & courgettes
As ever a few other jobs , pleased that the plots next to me are taken and people are working on them and gave them some courgettes
Weeded and covered 5 small beds with Horse manure as unlikely to be using them at the moment and this stops the weeds
Dug up a row of main crop potatoes 🥔, nice and clean but as I expected no bigger than first earlies
O/H harvested loads , pears , apples , blackberries, peas , carrots, courgettes, French beans and 1 plum
We cut some Jureslum artichokes down to 4 feet and pulled a load up , as we have far to many
Rest day today
Today's pickings
9lbs of toms again 🫣
Cabbage hearting and green broccoli making heads.
Dug up last bed of potatoes on the 28th , lots of small potatoes 🥔 , the soil is so dry and tops had died weeks ago
Been to allotment today , O/H burning
I redug the potatoe bed , only found a few more but lots of horse tail roots , then covered with membrane until required
As ever lots of jobs done , a very sunny today
Still can’t believe we have strawberries flowering again !
Picked out door toms , some look like they have blight ? But not many , strange !
Emptied the second bag of Pentland Javelin Potatoes, 2kg from four seed ones. These were better than the first bag. The Raspberries are going strong, the french beans finished.
Cut back the plum tree.
Tomorrow its veg soup making day, so Carrots to pull and cucumbers too ( plenty of them to pick)