Mom has asked me to post this as she has not been able to set up as an author for the site yet. I'm sure the allotment and the site will benefit greatly from this injection of care, attention and labour! Great to have you with us Mom & Dad!
July 6, 2010. John and I pottered down to the allotment in the early-ish evening, coolish and cloudy, a blessing as we have been so very hot and dry. Everything is struggling. John set to to clean round the old strawberry bed, which is raised by planks. I started to take the bindweed and other weeds out of the raspberries which are putting all their energy into getting their fruit to seed stage. John prefers weeding with the soil dry, but I found I had to be careful not to disturb the raspberry roots - so John got the water and then it went easier. ANd the raspberries enjoyed the water. I also picked and ate three gooseberries on the plant away from the general goosegogs, and very sweet and juicy they were too. The black currants and gooseberries are really good this year.
We cleared the strawberry bed a few days ago, and I have taken some of the old strawberries and soaked them in water, hopefully to find a few still alive and able to regenerate. They are now soaked in small pots. I also raised a whole lot of shallots, and they are busy being pickled even as we speak. There will be three big bottles of them, mildly pickled because of young sensitive tastebuds.
The peas,purple broccoli beans and chili plants are going a treat. Spinach has shot (too much heat and dry again) the bush beans are flowering, we have picked one golden beetroot and we are waiting for ANdrew to give his verdict, the courgettes are doing VERY well, looking very pretty with their huge leaves, yellow squiggly flowers and bouncing baby marrows.
John thinks the potatoes are maybe ready for lifting.
I am going to ask Andrew for a Sunflower to take to my botanical drawing course.
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