High-flying Vegetables

It wasn’t until our Thompson & Morgan order arrived that we realised we had a bit of a theme going on…

Our onions are Vulcan and Red Arrow, and our potatoes are Rocket!

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Super Sunny Saturday

Today was a perfect Spring day… warm sunshine, birds tweeting and much happiness from allotmenteers! Peering beneath the groundsheets we found the Rhubarb has survived and is looking rather healthy… with a bit of luck we’ll be over-run with it – we love it!  Perhaps we shouldn’t mention that, it’ll be our summer equivalent of the allotment-owners courgette glut! We had a good old digging and weeding session (as always!), and planted some radishes (Scarlet Globe), lettuce (Tom Thumb), spinach, rocket and salad leaves – from the old seed stash though so whether they come to anything will be a miracle, especially as we forgot the bird scarers again. ...

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Radishes, Beans & Corn

After so much heavy rain and many sunny spells there’s a lot of green on the allotment! Sadly the plants that are doing extremely well are the weeds, but many of our seeds are taking root too. The radishes are doing very well indeed – they desperately needed some thinning out, which Lisa persuaded Tony to do (he refused to have his picture up because he’s “not a girl!”… hehe). The lettuces and rocket will also need thinning out soon. The sweetcorn is slowing coming along, as is the courgette (his leaves are a little yellow-looking, but he’s growing up fast!). The beans have grown very quickly, they’re not looking too bad, but it looks like the slugs are moving over from the...

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