Back from Holiday

After nearly a month away from the plot, I come back to find things not as bad as I feared. The weeds are, of course, high but the raspberries are looking good, as are beetroot and carrots. The runner beans seem to have recovered and are starting to bear. Lots of courgettes and marrows.  Don’t think the peas made it though.

Picked some potatoes. Lovely.

Need to get down for a decent long visit and sort a few things out, especially plant some of the strawberry runners.

Green things growing

And not just weeds. The French Beans I sewed last week, have already popped their heads out.

 

Also, a few strawberries have come through, I’m pretty sure there have been more, but it looks like some pest is getting them, despite the net. Also the first of the raspberries have appeared and are ripening nicely.

I’ve been along every morning to water and all is looking good. I sewed some more carrots yesterday. Hopefully these will germinate.

Back at it!

After a month or so of short and sporadic visits, resulting in the loss of runner beans, carrots and leeks, I’m back at it.

I made it down on Sunday to scythe the weeds and cut the grass,  and I’ve been down 3 times this week before work.

With the beautiful weather it’s been wonderful. Planted some more runner beans, courgettes and cucumbers, sewed some French beans, weeded onions and strawberries.

What we have here is a failure to germinate

Slightly better weather this weekend. I managed to get down on Sunday morning and got the grass cut. All looking much better. There’s some frost damage to the potatoes. But the big disappointment is that the carrots, leeks and beetroot sowed a few weeks ago haven’t germinated.  Hopefully, with better weather this week, we might see some action.

Two wet weekends

The last two weekends have been wet, and limited my visits to quick  checks to see how the allotment is doing. Everything seems to be growing well especially the weeds. I scythed  a lot down last week, but haven’t been able to make it over with a mower yet. Hopefully tomorrow.

A Busy Day

Two visits today, the first with Beth and Mary, the second by myself.

I managed to dig over the bed 7 which, although covered, was very weedy. This bed will be host to runner beans, peas. Forked over bed 1 and planted a row of leeks, and a half row of carrots and a half row of beetroot.

Onions and Garlic are starting to show. No sign of potatoes as yet. Raspberry canes starting to come through. Rhubarb is doing very well.

Flying visit

Only had time for a flying visit this weekend.  I made it over for an hour, early on Sunday morning. Watered the garlic, onions and potatoes, and brought home a few stalks of rhubarb.

The weather has been very dry since I put the potatoes in, I’m slightly concerned, that it will affect them.