Picked a few more beans and also the first beetroot of the season. Not huge but looks good. Disturbed the wasps again but this time sprayed extensively with "RAID" wasp killer. Checked again after about fifteen minutes and seems to have done the trick but I'll keep an eye on it. Put some fleece round the carrots to keep off the carrotfly. Dug over and weeded a whole bed and planted with three trays of leeks. Then watered and fed with comfrey juice. Celery's looking good. The gooseberry that's been pruned and trained up a cane, to make picking the fruits easier, has some nice looking gooseberrys on it. Runner beans had a watering. Blueberry "bath" is going berserk. Somebody's had some nice long pallets delivered! ......and once again, as we prepare to leave, we're the only ones there............
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Decided to have a go at the compost as it needs turning and sorting. Unfortunately there was a wasps nest inside the fourth bin. Compost definitely needed some attention. Sweetcorn coming on nicely....... ......... as is the beetroot. Earthed up the potatoes. Potatoes in the bottom corner bed are looking good - once we got the nettles out that had migrated from Barry's plot. Talking of which, we cleared his rubbish off the path. Fruit cage is filling up a bit. Onions coming on as well. Tomatoes too are picking up and as can be seen below most of the stuff is doing alright at the moment. Went down the plot on Saturday 15th June and also today, 18th June. Total of about six or seven hours. Lots of weeding done but also prepared beds and planted various crops; like the celery, left and below. Also filled all the water butts. Picked the garlic and then prepared the bed. Left and below are photos of how the other beds are doing. Some seem to be more advanced than others but overall, considering the atrocious spring we had, things aren't too bad. Artichoke is coming on nicely again this year. Shame it's almost impossible to eat. Cut back the comfrey (left and below) and filled up the comfrey-juice bucket. Remainder went on the compost heap (below). Beetroot is doing very well. Onions look a little scrawny but I guess they're doing OK. Blueberries in the bathtub are doing alright too. A few general pictures just to finish off. The shed definitely needs tidying up! Next week (9th June) marks the first anniversary of this blog. It will be interesting to compare where we are year on year, especially when the seasons are tending to vary so much. Runner beans are doing OK considering they've only been in a few days. Went down the allotment yesterday primarily to put netting over the small fruit cage before fruit starts appearing. Expected it to take some time but did it all in just over an hour. Mind you, fingers ache from all the stapling. As this and the following pictures show, what's planted is doing well despite the atrocious weather we had in March, April and May. Note, to the left, there are a couple of squashes in with the sweetcorn. They grow, at ground level, around the sweetcorn, filling in the gaps. Finally, the comfrey and wildflower bed is coming along nicely. Note the foxglove (below). |
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