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 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 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 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 Jules, on August 22nd, 2010% The kids and I spent a couple of hours tidying up and harvesting.
Got two bags full of beans, the last mega-turnip, beetroot, artichokes, some cavolo nero leaves, two large and one medium-sized marrows, a courgette and three onions. Also harvested some unexpected broccoli, the last three garlic heads and one and a half of plants’ worth of potatoes (the ones that aren’t Anya!) Cut the tops of one row of the spuds but ran out of time to do the rest.
Red cabbage is looking good – some decent heads forming. Ditto the celeriac.
Brought home some poppy heads to scatter the seeds in the garden here to add some colour for next year.
By Phil, on July 7th, 2010% Jules went down to harvest stuff before we go on holiday. She got:
A carrier bag of lettuce
Some spring onions
A bunch of beetroot
Some peas
Some broad beans
A decent amount of rasps and strawberries
A couple of pounds of black currants
Artichokes (the plant has blown over)
A couple of garlic bulbs (again, they had blown over.
Anya potatoes, now ready.
We had an evening meal where pretty much everything had been in the ground that morning.
By Phil, on June 23rd, 2010% Jules weeded beds A and B, and watered.
Brought home lettuce thinnings from those lettuce between broad beans and peas, and a handful of broad beans (both are the first crops of each veg sown this year). Also brought home a garlic bulb that had blown over.
By Phil, on April 25th, 2010%  What was where in 2009 Bed A & B : potatoes
Bed C: Onions & garlick, plus odds and ends like parsnip and salad later
Bed D: Sweetcorn and courgette at one end, leeks at the other
Bed E: peas and beans, with some lettuce and salad in between
Bed F: comfry (permanent)
Bed G & H: planted various squash, but they failed. Had load of compost buried and was kept covered w/ black plastic.
Bed I: Brassica, incl. purple sprouting broccoli which overwintered to 2010.
Bed J: Globe artichoke + sorrel (permanent), planted black currant off-shoot from Donald in summer .
Fruit: Rhubarb x 2 (one near fence ~1yr old, not cropped) Red currant and Black currant had been over pruned so didn’t bother cropping, Strawberries in containers by currants, Blackberries and raspberries.
In November planted:
Bed A: onion sets (failed, frost) and garlic
Bed B: broad beans (only two survived) peas (failed) and lettuce (did surprisingly well) under fleece.
By Phil, on April 25th, 2010% State of the allotment in April 2010:
 What was where in April 2010 Bed A: Garlic (over wintered) Onion Sets (planted early april)
Bed B: Broad beans (a couple over wintered, others planted early april); peas (early Apr); lettuce (overwintered)
Bed D: parsnip (early Apr)
Beds G & H: Potatoes, anya, 3 rows 7 per row.
Bed I: Purple sprouting broccoli (over wintered)
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