Long time, no post!
Allotment Picked Raspberries
Its been a while since I’ve posted anything on here. Mostly because I haven’t really had a lot of time, and I haven’t had much allotment news to post!
We’ve done a varying amount of harvesting, often ending up with some huge courgettes which we have no idea what to do with (some of the biggest have been going straight onto the compost heap!)…
We’ve now dug up all the remaining spuds, which have had varying success – there’s been quite a lot with little slug holes in (in the King Edward at any rate). Maybe some sort of nematode will be needed next year to help stop that! Have planted up my Maris Peer Christmas potatoes, which are coming through nicely now, though a couple have leaves which have died off – not sure if that is a bit of blight got them (they are very low ground level at the moment), or if its lack of water or maybe just wrong conditions. Anyway, I cut the leaves off and disposed of them…. think I’ll earth the plants up to help discourage blight for the next week or so!
The raspberries have done really well, which is good as we didn’t plant them on the plot and the previous plot holder apparently removed them all! As a bonus, the birds don’t seem to have gone for them!
Still not picked any of the sweetcorn, though I think some of it may now be ready for trying… The mini-tomato plants at the allotment seem to have produced a lot of fruit, though it seems to be bursting as it ripens. At first I thought it might have been birds, pecking them, but after netting the fruit, its still happening.
The bottom of the plot seems to have been invaded by weeds again and I spent a while last night pulling some of the worst ones out and getting rid of them.
Back at the greenhouse we’ve got another couple of melons set in the greenhouse – the first one to set seems to have stopped growing, not sure if that was a lack of water, or the weather went dull and cloudy and wet for a while. I’ve just got the first of my greenhouse tomatoes starting to ripen, I suspect general wet and cloudyness has contributed to the late starting to ripen of the plants.