So what with one thing and another, we’ve not spent much time on the allotment this past fortnight. However, we’ve had a very productive evening tonight. First of all, Adam painted the shed with it’s second coat of green. Looking good!

Jen has done a bit of harvesting with mega beetroot, carrots, beans and tatties all coming home with us. The potatoes were more productive than they’ve been, suggesting that our first harvests were probably premature. The bed has been prepared for the next crop. Not sure what to risk doing- brassicas need a firmer ground than freshly dug potatoes leave so I may transplant more leeks into there.

Our cucurbits (oo posh word) are doing well. The butternut squash is doing it’s thang, it must have grown 50cm since Saturday and there are lots of fruit- I just hope that at least one ripens. Meanwhile the pumpkins have massive leaves and lots of flower buds so hopfully we’ll get something for Halloween. And the courgettes show real signs of being the prolific cropper everyone else goes on about but I have yet to witness.

So all in all the past soggy week has been good fir the plot. I’m still very nervous about tomato blight though… I notice that the guardian allotment blog was also on this theme today. Keeping things crossse

The first butternut squash

Adam’s pumpkins

The view this evening

A green shed

The top of a carrot

Tonight’s harvest

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