Allotments 4 All

nowt today,but plenty of weeding and watering yesterday  ;D

Weeding, raspberry picking, made two raised beds & filled with compost, sown one with turnips will sow the other one tomorrow - havent quite decided with what yet  ;)
Cut the comfrey back & added to stinky water butt :o
fed the squash plants with liquid seaweed
harvested turnips & their greens

weeded, watered, mulched...weeded, watered, mulched..snacked with berries,,,weeded,,etc,, ;D

Weeded, weeded and weeded  ??? ???
Also came home with beetroot, new potatoes, runner beans, spring onions, courgettes and peas ;D ;D


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Photo0411 by lisaparkin36, on Flickr

Bit hot to be doing very much so spent the day at the beach and this evening its was weed weed weed and covering the beds with membrane and watering.

The guys are working in the garden tuesday (Lawn gets laid finally) so later in the week i am going to be transplanting my brassicas into final position though the membrane :)

lisaparkin, what a lovely looking allotment!

I have done nothing today - tied down to daughter's primary school fete - meant to get to her Greenwich allotment to weed and sow - too tired and hot - admired her amazingly advanced apple trees in back garden, and came home.

Oooh, Lisaparkin, I had to do a double take on your courgette/marrow photo.  I really thought that you had harvested a hand too.  That looks so spooky.

Fab allotment by the way.

Thank you  :)

It is a courgette, it was hiding under some weeds and nettles, O/H found it.  The glove was to hand to show what sort of size the courgette was......but, yes it does look like I have been harvesting gardening gloves!!! ;D ;D

Planted out 40 sweet corn.

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on July 04, 2011, 16:51:26
Planted out 40 sweet corn.

are they not a bit late now ???


mine went in in May  :o

Back from a weeks holiday down in Kent, the first thing  was up to the lotty, needless to say it was a bumper picking session with the same tomorrow and all weekend, :)

my Runner beans have been attacked by rabbits this year

but not touched the French climbing beans in same bed  any idea why ?? ??? ???

I picked my first french beans (blue lake) from my back garden about 10 mins ago.  ;D

Started to dig up some more of my Nadine spuds, they are a really good size now ideal for baking its a shame we don't eat spuds in our house but they keeps me in a few pints down the local pub, Carrots, Beetroot, Broccoli, Caulie, Broadbeans,Peas, small Turnips, Shallots have been harvested today, I hope you all have a good harvest for the rest of the year, :)

Picked our first ripe ful sized tomato today, golden sunrise, full truss  ;D
we have tigerella, oxheart and marmande with pink fruits on .
picked mange tout and colossus peas, very good harvest so far, even managed to get some home to freeze  ;D

Hoe ed lots of weeds
Transplanted cabbages
Harvested carrots and a turnip
Site sec gave my a large swede, a spagetti squash and a marrow
;D ;D ;D

At the allotment, very busy today, met two new people.  Lent one a fork and one a pair of shears.  They seem very keen but not sure that they will last, think one couple will, not sure about the others.  Seemed to get tired after clearing some weeds and asked if the Council would do the other half.  Weeded, and picked broad beans, a few runner beans, and the peas have finished so weeded there.  Am boiling beetroot.  Did alot of walking around the site and talking to all my lovely friends, and the sun shone.  Just off to cook pork chops, with MY pots, my peas, my broad beans, my psb (tiny bit)  and the apples that dropped of the apple tree when I was weeding for apple sauce, so am very happy bunny.  ;D ;D  I forgot the lovely courgettes and the broad beans, pots and rhubard I gave to next door, and the sweet peas in a vase.

Kev, u and me think 2gether.  U beat me 2 the reply, lovely day today at the allotments.  Just practising my text language. lol. Not sure what that means, lots of love, or laugh out loud, thought everyone loved me.  ;D ;D Off topic again.

I set off with all good intentions to weed paths and tidy up, but all I did was pick my peas , dig up some potatoes. water my tomatoes which by the way are very slow to set this year. Anyone got the same problem? loads of flowers on b ut few fruits. picked strawberries eat a few massive blackcurrants and very nice too. dug up onions which had gone over, not large but who cares? had good talk to other plot holders, thats the life just love being outdoors. just wish I had more stamina to keep going longer. Oh and I finish putting in all my flowers which were left over,shame to waste them. Ann

If I'd planted out corn in May, they'd probably have been frosted. I'm a couple of weeks late, but there's still time.