It was a beautiful day today ~24 degrees this afternoon when we were at the plot. There are masses of ladybirds, hoverflies - they love the calendula - and cabbage white butterflies. Didn't find any caterpillars on the cabbages today - we found 2 yesterday :-(
Our Congo purple potato leaves have started to lean over - this may have been because it was windy, because their stems are so big and heavy or because they are almost ready to die back (hopefully because they've reached that stage naturally, rather than through disease!!)
The sweetcorn are still small (less than 2 feet) but the male flowers have already started growing. It seems the weather may have caused short sweetcorn plants - don't know whether we'll get short cobs as a result...
Picked some more lovely coloured carrots, Orla spuds and broad beans for tea. And the obligatory courgette!
Hungerford allotment blog - grow your own, harvesting and vegetarian cooking. Enjoying allotment wildlife, weather and other things that catch my attention. Enjoying time on the Marsh Lane Allotment site in Hungerford, Berkshire. A record of successes, failures and a handy reminder for me. From 2017 each post title brings a song to add a little extra music to the world - enjoy!
Sunday 31 July 2011
Saturday 30 July 2011
French Bean Chutney
Spent a few hours this afternoon making french bean chutney - we used our shallots instead of onions and our first harvest of french beans (just managed to get 0.5kg of beans)
Friday 29 July 2011
First Patty Pan (Balmoral)
This is our first patty pan, picked in the rain to eat, stuffed with broad beans and carrots, for my lunch.
Thursday 28 July 2011
Veggies for my mum
Really lovely hot and sunny day. I took a trugful of veggies to my mum - pulled the last of the Rocket potatoes and so was able to squeeze 6 more leeks into the space.
We sat in the sun most of the afternoon and in the evening went back up to the plot for a bat hunt. We didn't see any though! We heard a few on the bat detector, but not many although there seemed to be plenty of moths and bugs about - perhaps the bad winter really took its toll on the bat population here :-(
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