We cut the sage, thyme and chives for a lovely bread and the mint for a tasty salsa and a delicious pudding – all of which we shared with The Gang on Saturday evening.

Lisa is wearing the allotmentgirls t-shirt in pink from our merchandise shop

The Bay is doing extremely well, it has more than doubled in size since we bought it… we could do with some recipes that use it though!! This chilli plant has also surprised us, we thought we’d lost all of out chilli plants to the rain and weeds, but we found this one still alive n the undergrowth! It’s flowering well so we hope we may get some fruit from it.

We were delighted to find that beneath all the jungle of weeds our tomatoes were actually growing!! They’re little and green, but hopefully they’ll ripen nicely. Lisa’s mum has also given us some smaller tomato plants so we need to get them in the ground once we’ve cleared a few more weeds (she also gave us a green tomato chutney recipe should they not ripen!).

Also growing well are the sweetcorn, beans and broccoli, so we’re very hopeful of some good crops there too.

The herb garden was very overgrown, but apart from the parsley and the chilli plants everything is doing well, including three frogs, who leapt out of the jungle and looked quite annoyed at being disturbed! We think we’ll have to find them a little Toad Hall to live in!

Met the treasurer of the allotment today and attempts to look like we knew what we were doing failed when Siobhan stood on a newly planted marigold while speaking to him and didn’t notice – he had to point it out!

Bought some plants left over from other allotment owners to help us get started.

Planted today:

Tomatoes (two types)
Sweetcorn
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Chilli (two types)

Our allotment is starting to look quite professional now – we even have bottles on sticks!