By Phil, on September 5th, 2010% Harvested the potatoes. One sack of anya, two of nicola, all looking in good condition. (we have already eaten one of the three rows of anya)
Picked the onions and left them in covered crates at the allotment to dry.
Also picked beans (borlotti), courgettes, broccoli, spinach, blackberries.
Amazingly, we have an aubergine. (Doubly amazing since it is on the “pumpkin” plant)
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A small aubergine
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Bed E: Cabage, brocolli, and purple sprouting brocolli
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Bed D: parsnips, spinach, carrots etc
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Bed C: sweetcorn and courgettes (+aubergine)
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Bed B: beans
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Looking up to the shed
By Phil, on August 8th, 2010% Grubbed up broad beans and peas from bed B. Both have been a disappointment this year: the beans were late and yield much, they were at their best while we were on holiday (normally they’re pretty much done by then); the peas dried up while we were away. Sowed white clover as a green manure.
Sowed lettuce (tom thumb) and spring onions in the square at the other end of bed B where some French beans failed to grow. Also sowed Chinese broccoli and Indian mustard in bed C where the aubergine and pumpkin are doing nothing.
French beans are in full flow, got 2 or 3lbs of them, Also harvested some potatoes (Anya), onions, a turnip, and a large courgette.
By Phil, on August 7th, 2010% My fist trip to the allotment since coming back from hols. Quite overgrown but not as bad as last year.
Mostly weeded, but also harvested some beetroot, parsnips (which needed thinning) and a courgette and a few assorted French beans.
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Brassicas
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Root crops
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Onion bed
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Courgette and sweetcorn (back) pumpkin and aubergine (front)
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Pototoes and bed I (background)
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Weed?
Brassicas (bed E) look good, those are the red cabbage in the front, behind them the broccoli and at the back the purple sprouting broccoli.
Root crops (bed D) also look good. The parsnips at the front are getting a bit crowded. Beetroot and turnip are ready. The carrots are under the fleece, with carvolo nero and celeriac behind.
Onions (bed A)look OK, but were getting over grown with weeds. The onions grown from sets are ready, so I broke their necks.
The courgette is OK, sweet corn may fruit if we have a long summer like last year but pumpkin and aubergine look very doubtful.
Potatoes are fine, anya are done. But the tares sown as green manure on bed I got swamped by fat hen (which I strimmed, probably came from the compost, I suppose it’s a green manure of sorts).
There’s also a pretty looking plant next to the shed, which we certainly didn’t put there.
By Phil, on June 13th, 2010% Bought and planted:
– in bed C, 12 sweetcorn, 1 aubergine, 1 green pumpkin
– in bed D, 11 celeriac.
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