Yesterday Lisa picked: 7 sweetcorn – though some were not quite ready, so we need to make sure the ends are really brown and manky before we pick! 6 onions, including the red one! Several beans – yum! We like these raw, often they don’t make it into the pan. One little courgette – unfortunately [...]

We harvested quite a bit this evening…. The onions are great and at the moment we’re pulling them as we need them rather than doing a complete harvest. We may need to harvest them all soon though, so we need to think about the best way to store them. Tomatoes are looking a little sickly, [...]

A trip to the allotment for weeding this evening… it needed it!! Tony and Jordan came up to help – we needed them too! 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 [...]

We were back up to the allotment after work this evening to dig out the remainder of the larger plot of land and plant some lettuces (or should that just be lettuce?). We planted 4 rows in total: 2 rocket – ‘Runway’ 1 lolla rosso 1 tom thumb We also staked the remainder of the [...]

The overalls got their first outing today. It was a very hot day and there were questions from some friends over whether we had gone commando, but a lady does not reveal such things! Met the treasurer of the allotment today and attempts to look like we knew what we were doing failed when Siobhan [...]