There’s all sorts of creatures living amongst the plants.
Everything from wasps and flies to frogs, slugs and centipedes.
Also saw this growing amongst the chillies at home…
Month: August 2022
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Weeding and tidying
Now we’re harvesting the various crops that have been growing, it’s a good time to do some tidying.
After harvesting all the potatoes, I’ve dug the bed over ready for next year. At some point I’ll throw some fertiliser on it, and let the weather have a go at it too.
It’s also been a chance to tidy up the piles of plant pots and boxes allotments seem to accumulate.
And then finally some weeding to help the corn and beans keep growing.
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Mega potato harvest
Potatoes are the easiest thing to grow on an allotment. There’s all sorts of fussing and tales people have about how you’re supposed to do it.
Dig a trench, fill it with well rotted manure, chit your potatoes, don’t chit them, mound them up, don’t mound them up. The advice is endless and contradictory.
All I did was bury them and ignore the plants until the tops died off.
I think we’ve easily got 20 kilos here. To grow this I used three bags of seed potatoes from B&Q.
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Borage invasion!
“what’s this nice blue flowering thing in my garden? Oh it’s something called Borage and bees like it. Well that’s nice, it can stay…”
Borage…
At least it’s helping keep the strawberry runners, cat mint and nasturtiums under control.
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Corn! Beans!
Now the weather has cooled down a bit and there’s been some rain, the corn has grown pretty quickly.
The beans have also gone a bit mad. I think next year I’ll remember where I’ve planted them and put up a little frame for them to grow up.
