The ramblings of a pair of dreamers
Posted in Allotments on Jul 23rd, 2007
This evening we spent an hour and a half at the plots. I gathered some beans and carrots for tea. We also cut a decent cauliflower to go with them. Half went in the pot and half in the freezer.
We decided to dig up the Roseval potatoes and one whole row only gave enough for […]
Posted in Allotments on Jul 20th, 2007
In complete contrast to yesterday we worked at the plot today in torrential rain. Rob pulled up the rest of the pea plants and I sat in the shed doorway and pulled the pods off. We filled a large washing up bowl. The peas were growing around the inside of the second brassica cage so […]
Posted in Allotments on Jul 19th, 2007
We spent hours at the plots today in sweltering heat. Firstly we transplanted the brassicas from the nusery bed over to the new brassica cage on plot 18. We still have some small plants waiting to grow on a little more.
Rob dug up a row of potatoes, British Queen, and we were very pleased with […]
Posted in Allotments on Jul 13th, 2007
We both got soaked to the skin today but came home laden with produce. A lovely bag of Charlotte potatoes hardly touched by the blight, four meals worth of peas and a bowl of salad leaves.
The view in the lean to was heartbreaking as the cucumbers had been attacked by blackfly and mildew and the whole […]
Posted in Allotments on Jul 6th, 2007
Today, as well as a bit of weeding and tidying up between showers, we cut down the haulms of the potatoes. Most of the plot holders have lost their potatoes to the blight and we felt very sad and were remembering back to a few weeks ago when we were so excited digging up the first […]
Posted in Allotments on Jul 4th, 2007
We had six pounds of fruit from the blackcurrant bushes on plot 18 and I have made them into jam.
The weather has been terrible with loads of torrential rain bringing blight spores to everyones potato crops. Only the ones grown under shelter in bins have survived. We may follow that example next year. With the […]
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