I found one remaining pea pod, I think something else has had a chew at it though. It rattles, might keep it for next year.
Category: Harvest
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Too many tomatoes
It’s not been a good year for tomatoes. The plants have done well, but the actual tomatoes haven’t ripened at all. They’re just green balls of stomach ache now.
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Mr Bean
Beans are easy to grow, but if you don’t plant them in the correct place, they can be a bit hard to harvest.
I did put up a nice bamboo frame, but then got mixed up with what beans I’d sown and by the time I noticed, the runner beans had turned into a creeping mass.
Still, it out competed the bindweed. Next year, if there’s bare ground, it’s getting a bean plant in it.
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An a-maize-ing cornucopia of corn
Despite the hot, dry weather the corn has done remarkably well. It started off pretty straggly and limp, but over the past month it’s really shot up.
It’s also produced decent cobs. Previously the cobs I’ve managed to grow have been malformed and inedible.
I might have picked these a bit early, I’ve left the rest to continue developing. The birds and creatures haven’t noticed yet.
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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.
