Kinda lost track...

recent work:
planted leeks, topped and tailed, into holes
dug up most of the rattes - a pretty loaded trugfull,
planted some spinach in the space from the rattes
the new green beans are beginning to show

the squash are running rampant, at home and at the allotment,
tomatoes have had to have some emergency extra supports, and the cucumbers too
had a few runner beans, but still a problem with too much leaf, too little flower. Sounds like it might need more potassium-based feed.
the yinyangs are doing well - pretty heavy yields, but there's been some (slug?) damage.
Cabbages look like they're getting a bit slugged too, and we caught some caterpillars in the third bed (with non-stitched up cover). We haven't reloaded to beer traps in quite a while.
Dug up the caullis which had gone kinda funny.
The cherokees are doing well, at last.

Recent work - planted a late set of green beans, dug up some duff peas and broad beans. Sowed some fennel, two types of kale, oversized radishes.

The beans are very bushy but with few flowers - looks like i might have over fed them - can't really recall, but i gave them some tomato feed today. Cut some leaves off the cabbages in the most congested bed. Tomatoes are doing ok - big but not colouring up yet. We tried to pollinate the cucumbers by hand but they're stuck in an inaccessible corner of the greenhouse.


First carrots harvested:
Squash forming:

Emptying beds, filling beds.

Parsnips currently almost forcing their way out of cover.

Dug up the red onions. They're a bit disappointing with the majority bolted, and not many grown very large.
Harvested some of the yinyang beans. They're doing well.
Scrubbed the second stand of peas .These yielded very few peas in all.

Planted a bed of late dwarf french beans, as per instructions, in place of the first early potatoes.

The Ratte potatoes look like they're ready to come up. Bit of a problem since we've got a large amount of the BdeFs left.
At home, decided the shallots were dry, so sorted them out. They amount to a decent bag of good ones, two plaits (see below), plus a handful of damaged ones for urgent use. By and large, the bigger shallots (whoch came i think from the covered market) may as well be onions, and the yield from shallots is much more than the equivalent onions.

Back to the allotment

Harvested: 1 Cabbage, 1 Caulliflower (bit dodgy looking), some broad beans (yields on the last plants very low), 1 Carrot (not quite ready yet).

Cherokee beans looking like they're finally getting their act together.

Brief catchup

Some more Braod beans harvested - the later plants have not yielded nearly so many broad beans, and many of them are a bit warped. Cut ~1/3 of the plants down to the ground; they are resprouting and apparently there's a chance we might get a second tier of beans later.

Scrubbed the first generation of peas. Missed a decent chunk of the peas so they are now a bit on the big side. Also a fair few with pea moth inside. Yuk.

Picked some of the German Radish pods. Taste like radish. Go figure.

General weeding and maintenance.

Parsnips;
Beanframe

The allotment is ok, ticking over well. Lots of weeding to do obv.

harvested the remainder of the Bell d' Fontenay potatoes, also some broad beans, peas and weird german radish thingys:

This is a squash growing up the side of the bean frame:



The squashhouse is still going ballistic, although one of the lids turned out to be not so well attached

Lotta shallots

Harvested shallots. This is approx 40% of them.

Also, forgot mum had a harvest of broad beans in the week + did some watering.

Did a bunch of weeding today, planted the remainder of the beans

While you were out...

Squash house, aka the jungle:Greenhouse, aka the other jungle:
Tomatoes:
Bean Frame:
Carrots in front, Parsnips second:
Parsnips:
Outdoor Squash:



And today's crop:
Pointed Cabbage, Caulliflower, Beetroot, Peas, Broad beans Shallots