Simon's Allotment

Still no rain this last week so I've been unreeling the hosepipe yet again over the weekend. Today it's suddenly a whole lot cooler ...

I follow the RHS advice on watering which is after two weeks without rain to water every seven days, in the morning, at the rate of 2 gallon...

This has been going nuts this past week - the fairy toadflax has gone over but the Californian poppies are still going strong and have been ...

The bumble bees have been loving this:

Much better results growing using the cordon system - longer stems and better quality flowers:

I'm quite chuffed with these this year; they got off to a shaky start but now they're doing really well and so far there's no si...

Greyhound cabbages at the front almost ready for cropping; brussels sprouts at the rear:

Enjoying the sunshine and starting to flower:

Looking healthy:

Maincrop podding up: Successional sowing - early peas (on the right) now over; maincrop (centre) about to crop; follow on crop (left) growin...

The climbing Egyptian pea beans (on the left), which I'm trying for the first time, are doing far better than my runner beans (on the ri...

Something for pudding:

So the first six months of the year have been the driest since 1929 - which was also the start of the Great Depression, and obviously I was ...

Still looking lush:

Cornflowers, corn marigolds and field poppies in the cornfield mix:

According to the weatherman we're in the middle of a heatwave; I seem to remember when it was just called June. Lots of watering of cour...

Early Onward:

Durham Early: