Allotment photos

robthefish reminded me that I need to post about the allotment.  micavity took some photos a couple of weeks ago, but I only recently managed to understand LJ's scrapbook well enough to actually upload them.  Here they are.

If you're at all interested in veg growing, take a close look at the sweetcorn photo.  We've been experimenting with something called the Three Sisters method which involves growing sweetcorn on mounds and interplanting with beans and squashes.

For various reasons, we didn't do too well with the beans and squashes (well, it is our first year, and we're still learning), but the mounds made an amazing difference to the sweetcorn as you'll see from the photos.  Don't yet know what the final crop will be like, but I'm betting it will be higher on the mounds.

I don't know why the mounds make such a difference.  My best guess is that the soil warms up faster.