Week 34 of 2019 On The Allotments

Oh my was it hot this Sunday on the allotment, we arrived all fully of energy and ready to clear some weeds but soon had to cut sort our plans. We did however manage to move the weeds we had pulled and piled up last week and weed some more. 

I pulled all the onions, both red and white, and weeded the shallot and red onion bed. While Bill moved the weed pile and weeded the potatoes. Bill also earthed up the potatoes.

We are a little late earthing up the potatoes but its still worth giving it a go. 

After a break we went blackberry picking along the hedges around the allotment. We got loads, they all got taken to Mums to be frozen until we are ready to make jam.

In our pursuit of black berries we also went round the hedge into the orchard, noting that some of the trees looked a little under cared for we decided to pop down to the allotment shop and ask about trees. The person in charge of trees wasn't there but the secretary said she would email them for us. fingers crossed we may get some trees.

By this point it was mid day and very hot so we decided to harvest what we could and head home. 

Check out the size of this courgette, its massive! 

And the rest of them aren't exactly small either, 4 big courgettes. They grow really fast, every week we pick all that are at a usable size, and then almost out of nowhere more giants appear next week. they are definitely being grown again next year.

The runner beans didn't disappoint either, admittedly the courgettes are in the bottom of the trug in the picture but we still had several good handfuls. I think we planted a good amount of plants this year, so will be repeating this too.

So overall a good weekend, the plot is looking pretty good after the 2 weeks of weeding, and we are getting a good qty of thins harvested. Sadly our Outdoor girl tomatoes got a little blight so we removed them off the plot to protect the pineapple ones.