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06 Jul 2009sweet pea update Sweet Pea 'Everlasting' Flowering and Allotment Vegetable gardenRainy 14°C / 57°F
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06 Jul 2009Almost ready beetroot and Allotment Vegetable gardenStorms 16°C / 61°F
Just a picture update…
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06 Jul 2009flowering Bean "runner" Flowering and Allotment Vegetable gardenStorms 16°C / 61°F
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06 Jul 2009Teeny fruits Tomato "Roma" , Allotment Vegetable garden , Tomato sweet million , Allotment Vegetable garden , Tomato "...18°C / 64°F
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06 Jul 2009July at the allotment Allotment Vegetable garden18°C / 64°F
I’ve lost two of my squash/pumpkin plants to a fox – I’ll know which when the ones left behind start to fruit..
Tomatoes are now fruiting
Beetroot is almost ready and so are my peas
Still picking lots of strawberries..
Everything else is doing well.. We’ve just ha...
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29 Jun 2009Loving these 1 Allotment Vegetable garden and Potato"Belle de Fontenay" HarvestingSunny 29°C / 84°F
My belle de fontenay are fab The yield you get from each plant is huge and they are scrumptious with a big dollop of butter – yummy!!!
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29 Jun 2009My earlies have blight 1 Allotment Vegetable garden , Potato"Belle de Fontenay" , and Potato "Arran Victory"My early potatoes have blight – i noticed the tell tale signs "black spots and yellowing leaves on them over the weekend. Tonight i was down the plot digging them up and spraying my main crop with Bordeaux mixture to try and minimize the damage. The earlies are fine as the blight nev...Clear 17°C / 63°F
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22 Jun 2009Leeks Leeks Planting Out and Allotment Vegetable gardenPlanted out down side of onion bedRainy 14°C / 57°F
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07 Jun 2009arran pilot potatoes 1 Potato "Arran Victory" Flowering and Allotment Vegetable gardenare flowering… will harvest my first earlies soon – whoo hooCloudy 14°C / 57°F
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01 Jun 2009time to thin gooseberries 1 3 Gooseberry 'Invicta' Harvesting, Allotment Vegetable garden , and Gooseberry 'Whinhams Industry' HarvestingSunny 25°C / 77°F
This is the first year my goosegogs have fruit. So i thought i should start as i aim to go on and thinned them out. “Roughly every other fruit was picked leaving the rest to get bigger and sweeter for picking later in the summer”.
I’m on the lookout for ideas for my first smalli...

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