By Phil, on August 11th, 2013% Harvested french and runner beans, one courgette, two lettuce, a carrier bag of chard and a couple of plants worth of both types of potatoes and a few more carrots.
Second and third sowing of carrots are coming up (nantes 2 and berlicum, from late June) Don’t know if there will be time for them to mature, though they are only a couple of weeks behind last year’s.
Summer rasps and strawberries are over, as are broad beans. Grubbed up second row of broad beans.
Sowed 2 rows Spring Hero cabbage where broad beans were (bed C) and a second row of chard next to the other two rows of radish (one of rudi one of french breakfast) and a row of valor lettuce where garlick was (all bed D)
Watered sweetcorn and squash especially, put cardboard tubes on musselburgh leeks to blanch the stems. Strimmed all grass.
By Phil, on August 4th, 2013%  The day’s harvest, 4 Aug 2013 Todays harvest was lettuce, pak choi (from our neighbour), french beans, broad beans, chard, spinnach, red currants (4lb), black currants, garlic, carrots, baby leeks (thinnings), turnips, courgettes. (Not shown: some wonderful raspberries and strawberries that didn’t make it home.)
Also cut the grass, did a fair amount of weeding. The garlic s now all up, as are the over-wintered broad beans and the spinach (which went to seed before we got much from it).
 Bed I, courgette, squash and sweetcorn Quite happy with how things are going this year. The courgette squash and sweetcorn in all look good, and the french beans are now beginning, though the dwarf beans are a little too little.
 Bed C, French beans
By Phil, on July 28th, 2013%  Blackcurrant vodka in the making A couple of hours at the allotment today, harvested 2.5lb blackcurrants. These were put into one normal and one medium kilner jar, and covered with Vodka. In a few months we will have blackcurrant vodka.
Also brought back lettuce, courgette (well, marrow), brad beans, strawberries and raspberries (both very nice), and potatoes (sarpo mira, which are ready) .
By Phil, on July 21st, 2013% First visit after about 3 weeks due to holiday, during which time there has been lots of sun and not much rain. We weren’t expecting good things, but were very pleasantly surprised. For one thing, looks like a friendly neighbour had been doing some watering for us. Thanks! We did lots more today.
Pretty much everything looks good. Potatoes are healthy and flowering.
Most of the beans are looking OK (though the dwarf beans haven’t really got going), and the lettuce is ready.
The garlick is ready, the leeks OK (thinned out the musselburgh that we started on windowsill, the last lot sowed direct into the ground failed), radishes were ready a week or two back, but still (just) OK, the spinach is heading to seed but still (just) OK, chard, turnips and beetroot looking good.
The brassica and parsnips are looking good, but needed weeding.
Berries and currants looking good, though we should have tied up the raspberries as some of them have keeled over. Sweetcorn, squashes and first lot of carrots all good (but later sowing of carrot have failed)
Brought home loads of lovely red currants (4.5lb!), strawberries and raspberries. Lots of broadbeans, a courgette on its way to being a marrow, baby leeks and small carrots (thinnings), and giant radishes, some garlick, and a couple of lettuces.
Big difference to last year.
           
By Phil, on April 21st, 2013% Sowed third row of broad bean (Bunyards Exhibition, should come on later than those sown earlier). First row look OK, one or two of second row just beginning to show.
Sowed row of Leeks (Pandora, same as sown in modules, should be read in late summer / Autumn) next to garlic in bed D
Sowed row of red cabbage (Marner Lagerot) next to parsnips at end of bed E.
Sowed carrots (Nantes 2) in raised container to be clear of root fly.
By Phil, on April 7th, 2013% Has been very cold, some snow in last fortnight, but over all very little rain/snow. Allotment looks like it is early March. Broad beans that over-wintered are OK, no sign of those sowed early March. Garlic looks OK.
Yesterday we sowed leeks in modules on kitchen windowsill.
Today we moved summer raspberries from by blackberry to along side strawberries (bed H). Mulched with cardboard and leaf. Also sowed parsnips at end of bed E–which will be for brassica and roots this year.
By Phil, on March 24th, 2013% Moved Rhubarb from in front of blackberry to bed G, between strawbs and comfrey. Split the one massive plant (huge root) into about 10 smaller ones. Each one was put in with dead leaves, comfrey juice and chicken poo, and the whole lot covered with dead leaves.
Dug over bed E (no compost).
Jules and Katie painted shed.
It has been cold, some snow but not much, not getting much above freezing most days. Still the over-wintered broad beans look OK, even those I moved and so does the garlic I planted. Not surprisingly there is no sign of br. beans I planted on last visit.
Bought potatoes a couple of weeks ago. Sarpo miro, a blight resistant variety and charlotte. V. small due to supply being hit by bad weather last year. They are chitting in the loft.
By Phil, on March 3rd, 2013% Half of over-wintered broad beans are gone, only two left in one row and some slug slime. Moved those two to fill gaps in other row and sowed a new row. Put up glass on either side of double row to act as wind-break.
Dug over last metre or so of bed D, raised it slightly and planted ca. 14 garlic cloves. The cloves have been in the shed since Oct or Nov, mostly look ok bit kind of optimistic to think that they will grow well. Put netting over to keep bird off.
Harvested last of leeks and parsnip.
started new compost bin (one nearest shed) with top off bin next to it, some kitchen waste and leaves+comfrey juice.
By Phil, on March 3rd, 2013% Cold winter, some snow, car access to plot blocked by works. Didn’t get down very often so no major work done.
Harvested carrots, turnips, beetroot, parsnip and leeks through first weekend of Mar. all of which did quite well. Carrots especially worked well, and the parsnips.
Planted two rows of broad beans (super aquadulce) in early Nov (bed C), which germinated OK and about half of them survived.
By Phil, on August 12th, 2012% Picked rest of broad beans, which have been good but late this year. We have runners and some french beans on the way.
 Runner beans, bed E Carrots tops are being nibbled or broken by something.
 few remaining carrots There aren’t many of them, but the turnips, beetroot and parsnip look OK.
 Turnips, beetroot, parsnip Berries are rampant, especially the blackberry. Picked a decent number of raspberries, red currants, and a few strawberries.
Other beds look pretty dismal, though harvested more anya: small but no sign of blight/rot.
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