Blakes 7 in London

When I posted here about the London event, I got the date wrong!  It should be Saturday 5th May (which hopefully anyone who followed the link would have noticed, but I crawl in abject apology to anyone who didn't notice).

Planted out cauliflowers and other allotment stuff

One of the things I have really noticed down the allotments is how helpful the other allotment holders are.  When we took over the allotment, there were large numbers of a mysterious little yellow plant.  I asked the other allotment holders, but none of them had any idea what it was.  Yesterday, Richard, one of the the plot holders came up to me and said he'd identified it.  It's feverfew.  Having looked it up on Google, I now have a fair idea why it was there.  Feverfew is one of the plants that attract hover flies -- it has flowers rather like a daisy and hover flies like flat ,open flowers.  Hover flies are a good thing, because their larvae feed on aphids -- and aphids, needless to say, are a bad thing.

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