Ipomoea has it's first flower.
The carrots are finally picking up.
The potatoes are looking wonderful - hope the spuds match the foliage for growth!
And finally here's a couple of general shots across part of the allotment.
Following on from my previous blog regarding a prolonged period of rain preventing us from visiting the allotment; we've gone down today to water everything following four days of plus-thirty degrees sunshine. Ipomoea has it's first flower. The carrots are finally picking up. The potatoes are looking wonderful - hope the spuds match the foliage for growth! And finally here's a couple of general shots across part of the allotment.
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Lockdown is gradually being eased and more shops are opening, but pubs and restaurants remain closed. We can however visit friends if we sit in their garden and self-distance. Throughout this period of Lockdown the allotment has pretty much remained unscathed. Even so, a prolonged period of heavy rain has prevented us from visiting the allotment until now. We don't need to water but the weeds have gone berserk! The sweet peas have also gone mad.......... The sweetcorn has also enjoyed the prolonged rainy spell. That's a large weed in with the celery....... ........and these are the weeds in with the pumpkins and courgettes - before weeding - and after weeding. At least we're getting a great crop of mange-tout. The tomatoes are also enjoying this British "summer". It's been dry for a few days now and as we've recently planted quite a few plants we thought we ought to go down and water some of the less established veg. The squashes and courgettes especially needed a drink. The clematis and the poppies are still flowering well. The gooseberries in the large fruit cage are looking excellent. While we were down there we planted a few more carrot seedlings. Once again what we had already planted were not doing particularly well. The leeks were definitely in need of a water. While we were there we picked what is probably the last of the asparagus for this season. Several of the onions appear to have some sort of disease or blight so we got rid of all the infected ones. There don't appear to be any actual grapes on the vine this year. They're normally visible by Mid-June and we did have an exceptionally dry, warm May which should have benefited the vine. It still makes a lovely green wall against the shed. All of a sudden there appears to be loads of plants and seedlings to put in down the allotment. Firstly though, surrounded the celery with membrane to help blanching. Planted several courgettes near the pumpkins and next to the sweetcorn. Planted some squashes in a row between the tomatoes. Planted dozens of wallflowers ready for next year. Potatoes are looking extremely good now. High hopes for a good crop this year. Watered the onions again but a few seem to have perished. It's definitely too dry in the two beds near the cemetery wall so we're not bothering at all with the bottom bed this year - apart from the artichokes - and we'll have to have a think for next year. The roses are looking good again this year. Cut back the comfrey in the comfrey bed and replenished the comfrey water-butt as the liquid feed needs topping up. Even though it's forecast rain from tomorrow afternoon it is only showers that are forecast, so to be on the safe side we went down before seven again and thoroughly watered everything. We also did some planting. Planted the celery............. Also planted five courgettes. Before we left I cut back the comfrey and put it into the "comfrey butt". |
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