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 27th, 2013% Planted 4 rows x 7 sarpo mira potatoes in bed B.
Planted 1 caseille (josta) bush, blackcurrant/gooseberry cross at back of bed J and blackcurrant in middle.
By Phil, on July 18th, 2012% A depressing trip, really. The courgette, squash and sunflowers are gone, some of the (anya) potatoes have what looks like black leg, the black and red-currants have been eaten by birds, the weeds are rampant. On the plus side we should finally get some broad beans in a week or so.
Planted some carrots in a raised bin (away from carrot fly) and some perpetual spinnach.
Dug up some new potatoes, got a few strawberries and raspberries.
By Phil, on March 6th, 2011% Planted ~100 onion sets (sturon globe) and 50 shallots (longor) at end of beds G & H nearest Donald’s.
Cleared top growth from side of bed I and bed J and around currant bushes, used it to fill in hole where cold frame used to be. Dug out couch grass root from current bushes and tried to improve soil with with leaf mould from where black berry grows.
Harvested the last of the parsnips and the celeriac from bed D, got more than I thought I would.
Continue reading Sun. 6 Mar 2011
By Phil, on July 31st, 2010% Back from holiday, Jules, Jm & Kt went to check on allotment.
Harvested 1 bag of broad beans (grubbed up plants). a couple of large courgettes (just short of marrow-sized) and some smaller ones, a bag of spinach, a couple of plants-worth of potatoes (anya), half dozen small artichokes, one lettuce (others had bolted), spring onion, turnips, beetroot, 2kg redcurrants, some raspberries, strawberries and a blackberry.
The peas have dried up and died while we were away, but overall, apparently, the plot loots OK.
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 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.
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