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Allotment update
Jul. 24th, 2010 09:58 pmI've been so busy with morris stuff that I haven't posted much about the allotment, but it's still going fine and we're going down almost every morning at present to do a bit of weeding and collect food.
We've had a really good potato crop this year, the runner beans are coming on great and so is the perpetual spinach. The mange tout were okay ,but not as good as last year. The drought caused them to suffer in spite of lots of watering.
The squash plants are the best we've ever had. We're tying to give them lots of water this year to encourage them to produce more female flowers ( the ones that end up with fruit) and it seems to be working.
The pigeons made a real mess of the blackcurrant bush. The last two years they've hardly touched it, so we hadn't bothered netting it. THis year, they not only got most of the fruit, but also did a lot of damage to the bushes and broke a lot of the branches. Next year, we'll net as soon as the fruit are all pollinated.
The redcurrants were very tasty. The bushes are younger and this was the first decent crop. Here's hoping for more next year.
We need to plant more rocket and also more cabbages, and beetroot if we can. The drought got too many of our beetroot seedlings, though we also lost some when my knees were bad and I wasn't getting down the allotment enough.
Next job will be transplanting leeks into the ground freed by the potatoes. Then we'll need to start looking for good strawberry runners to move the strawberry bed (which you should do every few years) into the space where we've just dug out the onions. We had a good onion crop too. The strawberries suffered a bit from the drought. We watered them a lot ,but not enough for all the fruit to swell properly. Still, the glut was glorious while it lasted!
We've had a really good potato crop this year, the runner beans are coming on great and so is the perpetual spinach. The mange tout were okay ,but not as good as last year. The drought caused them to suffer in spite of lots of watering.
The squash plants are the best we've ever had. We're tying to give them lots of water this year to encourage them to produce more female flowers ( the ones that end up with fruit) and it seems to be working.
The pigeons made a real mess of the blackcurrant bush. The last two years they've hardly touched it, so we hadn't bothered netting it. THis year, they not only got most of the fruit, but also did a lot of damage to the bushes and broke a lot of the branches. Next year, we'll net as soon as the fruit are all pollinated.
The redcurrants were very tasty. The bushes are younger and this was the first decent crop. Here's hoping for more next year.
We need to plant more rocket and also more cabbages, and beetroot if we can. The drought got too many of our beetroot seedlings, though we also lost some when my knees were bad and I wasn't getting down the allotment enough.
Next job will be transplanting leeks into the ground freed by the potatoes. Then we'll need to start looking for good strawberry runners to move the strawberry bed (which you should do every few years) into the space where we've just dug out the onions. We had a good onion crop too. The strawberries suffered a bit from the drought. We watered them a lot ,but not enough for all the fruit to swell properly. Still, the glut was glorious while it lasted!
