14th August – Allotment: gaining ground

Maybe a bit of an optimistic title. But I’ve taken some of the first earlies out of the ground (to bring to friends we’re visiting over the weekend). And I’ve weeded 3 beds: onions, shallots and carrots and a quick go over the sunflower and marrow bed and tried to salvage the cucumbers (I think one’s still going).

Oh, and we picked about 2 and a half kilos of blackberries for Jam and bought some jam sugar and some lemons: I’ll let you know how that goes…

So, some photos so show what I mean:

Onions before

Onions after the effort

Shallot update

Carrots

Sunflowers and marrows

And again from another angle

Cucumbers: plant on left has fruited but is struggling

10th July 2010 – Allotment

Oops: a bit of a gap…some photos of it not looking its best. I did do some work after these were taken (honest). Especially around the onion beds…

Gooseberry (no fruit, not a leaf...mystery)

Finally some random lettuce on the big bed

Gooseberries with asparagus on the end

Whole of the lower level. Spuds in the distance

Blackfly on the peas (Lady birds are a bit disinterested)

Upper level

Shallot bed

Onions

Cucmber

I’ve be manually removing the blackfly: squishing as many as possible. They seem to have ants associated with them…hmmm