Simon's Allotment

These are starting to put in an appearance:

So every time I put up a new post there's a sudden flurry of interest (alright the hit counter goes up a couple of notches) and quite a ...

Very peculiar weather today. The wet stuff has stopped falling out of the sky and instead there's a big hot round yellow thing up there....

I liked the separated petals on this one:

These just keep on coming:

These are a late summer variety, I haven't a clue what they're called; I started them off with a root from my mate Arther.

I've left plenty of brambles round the edge of the plot and with all the wet stuff falling from the sky the blackberries are big and swe...

Things are still ticking over nicely; I've sown the spring cabbage today. As the phacelia made such good green manure I've sown some...

I've dug up the remainder of the Pentland Javalin today, a good haul and not a trace of wireworm, so I must be doing something right:

So much to choose from at the moment: peas, french beans, cauliflower, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, courgettes, gooseberries, rasp...

I sowed a little nursery row of Golden Acre in the middle of June and transplanted them this week to where the early peas were. They got a b...

These are ready now just as the earlies have finished.

Picked the first of these today.

These are starting to come along now. I only use them as a winter vegetable so they were sown quite late in the middle of May and planted ou...