Allotmenteering! turned 2 today! This makes me a bit sad - I haven’t done anything with the blog this year - or the allotment for that matter… I will resolve to be better next year!

Well it definitely isn’t straight, but it is standing!

Homegrown leek and potato soup

Homegrown leeks, onions and potatoes = leek and potato soup!

kingswoman:

With a marrow? I’ve never eaten it before and I managed to detach a huge marrow from a friend’s plant accidentally yesterday, so now I need to eat it before it goes bad…

Two Brilliant Marrow recipes:

http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/courgette-marrow-and-ginger-jam/

http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipes/chutneys/marrow-chutney

pretty dinner

mutant strawberry

Fruit*

I’ve been very pleased with my fruiting plants this year, I’ve had loads of strawberries, redcurrants and rhubarb. I also planted a gooseberry bush and 3 blackcurrant plants which will hopefully provide heaps of fruit next year too.

*I’m trying to look on the positive side of allotmenteering and desperately trying not to think about the 2 nearly empty beds at the back of the plot where the pigeons struck!

I have had quite the infestation of black fly, I’ve been told to remove the tops but to be honest the infestation is so bad I’m not sure how that would help. besides this year I seem to have a huge population of ladybirds so I’m hoping that they will keep numbers down. 

potatoes at last!

None of my potato plants have actually flowered yet, but I planted WAY more than was necessary so I have been digging up a few plants to sustain me. potatoes are so easy to grow and so satisfying. 

Savage pigeon attack!

I don’t think I’ve ever been more upset at the allotment than when i arrived to find that ALL my brassica had been destroyed by the pigeons and that my turnips had bolted.

sad, sad times.

My first and sadly last Kohlrabi. this was the only one that survived the savage pigeon attack.

Home grown dinner (with a little help from Greedy Gardener who gave me the flowers)

Weeding woes

This is my first post in a few weeks, mostly because I’ve been hugely busy, but also because I’ve been a bit embarrassed about the state of my allotment. The year started off so well with bags of enthusiasm but this miserable weather has really dampened my spirits. Although my beautiful veg has taken a battering, the weather seems to have done little to impede the progress of the weeds, which have, slowly but surely, taken over every available inch of soil (much to my embarrassment).

SO I’ve attached a recent picture and vow to get on top of things this weekend, come rain or shine.