Actually did the first major pick of the season on 30th June but just got round to documenting it.
Raspberries, mange-tout, gooseberries and a whole load of redcurrants.
Actually did the first major pick of the season on 30th June but just got round to documenting it. Raspberries, mange-tout, gooseberries and a whole load of redcurrants.
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Spent half a day down the allotment today. Filled up the water butts and watered some of the beds; emptied one of the compost bins into another one to make room for fresh composting material and planted some leeks. Also pulled up the foxgloves in the wild garden bit as they were going to seed. Also weeded the last bed without any crops in so every bed is now either in use or ready for use. Grapevine definitely needs a trim.
Just popped down for an hour to pick some fruit and dug up some potatoes while we were there. Picked a couple of courgettes too.
Went down the allotment for about three hours today mainly to secure the fruit cage by stapling all around the base, but did a few odd jobs as well. The carrots are finally doing something. Trimmed back the asparagus. Cleared some of the comfrey. From this....... ......to this. Sweetcorn's looking good. Put a fleece around a second carrot bed. Wild flower garden's looking nice...... As well as a load more soft fruit, including the first blackberries, we picked about 5lbs of potatoes.
Just popped down for an hour or so to water and pick some fruit. We also picked a couple of pound of potatoes to have with pork chop and ratatouille for tea.
![]() Spent a couple of hours attending to the water-butts. We'd poured pond cleaner in them because during the mild winter a green algae had appeared in them all. It looked as though they would all need a thorough cleaning out but luckily they weren't too bad. We took the opportunity to move the water-butt that was down by the wall as that one tended to attract a lot of snails and slugs. ![]() We moved it up to between the large fruit cage and the rhubarb and then proceeded to fill all the butts while watering at the same time. We'll have to come down again in three days if the weather stays like this. ![]() We picked a few raspberries for good measure. They seem to have satrted ripening early this year but we have had some decent weather recently. |
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