After returning from a lovely two week holiday in France we popped down today when Daddy was back at work to see how the allotment was coming on. We were genuinely totally suprised !
We filled all 3 baskets full of stuff to bring home. We dug up two potato plants and the potatoes are lovely, they have a little scab on them but I have looked it up and it is only a surface thing. We picked 2 courgettes although you could be mistaken for thinking one of them was a marrow ! We dug out the remaining yellow courgette plant as it appeared diseased (when we put it in the compost heap there were another couple in there, so maybe there was a disease in the area). The butternut squash plants have gone bananas - so much so they are shading the new beetroot, and tte Swiss Chard that was next to them - I have tried to put some canes in to try and stop them taking over quite so much. We picked a pile of runner beans, french beans and pea pods. The second lot of peas had fallen over the lettuce in the wind and that in turn had fallen on the radish. We removed the lettuce that was left, and lifted up the peas in the hope that the radish may come back again ? We'll have to wait and see I suppose. The broccoli was in flower, and some small heads elsewhere so we cut those down. Also there are tiny cauliflowers about 5 cm wide :-)
Will have to bring the camera down to take some photos I think.
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