We have been on our full sized allotment for just over a year now and our time upon it has been an interesting growing year. We grew lots of onions where we envisaged growing none, two beds of sweetcorn, one as the back up as well as the first planted but both grew. An absolute bumper crop of strawberries, a daily supply of raspberries, potatoes, potatoes, potatoes although wire worm and a pest was a slight issue. Our lasses flowers grew well, with an initial would we grow any to having various displays which have done very well and brought the color to the allotment our lass wanted. If the rhubarb is anything like it's growth in the first year we should have a bumper harvest when we can finally pick some next year, we also have to tame the octopus of a blackberry bush and reposition the raspberries.
All in all it is as always an adventure, you travel along not knowing exactly where you will end up. Vegetables we thought we would want to grow have dropped out of favour such as carrots, we will be doing a multitude of peas and beans next year and I, with the knowledge of growing tomatoes this year will be more selective and use a slightly differing technique for growing, so as to not have such a glut but a high quality tomato for our lass.
It has taken a year but I have also got out of my system the need for telling the world "Look at what we have produced" I am sure it is some sort of allotment owners ailment. Feeling as though you were one of the first to grow or do something and get the urge to tell the world. It is why there has been such a big gap between the last posts. I have still been taking photographs so you can see the before, the during and the after, but in the future it will be a bi weekly or monthly activity on here. This is our diary to look back at what we have done.
So with that, here are some of our latest photographs
The sweetpeas as you can tell have done very well and the scent could be quite powerful en masse as they were.
Not everything has been perfect, the day our stuff got moved, but lets move along ourselves, next photograph please.
Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes.
It is not a party trick, but every time I use a fork I manage to bend one of the tines on it....
July 26th, just taking in the view down the allotment.
Isn't nature great. Must admit in this instance the bee was quite drunk on the pollen gathering so made it easier to take the photo and for once my camera took a good shot.
End of July looking back at the allotment as we are about to go home.
A tidy shed, finally made use of the work bench, so at the same time had a tidy up.
Potatoes coming out muck going in
August 11th winter spuds sown
Grape vine put into place in the green house, as you can see the end of the tomatoes for this year, such a bumper year we had to give buckets full away on freecycle.
Our first pumpkin a little early but does need at least 2 weeks to mature. Will report back to how well it stores.
Club root, not good for the cauliflower, no more of them for a while it seems.
Our lass had been looking for a deck chair for quite a while, finally got one at a great price.
The Best Exotic Marigold Greenhouse. This was our best marigold bloom at the time and it got snapped, so seemed a fitting addition to the greenhouse
Our new bug house to be completed
I think with the amount of photographs I have just put up, I really need to keep on top of this blog as we do the allotment itself.
