Nice Of You To Drop By

Looking around my allotment I notices quite a few volunteers (no don,t mean spuds)some are things I have planted in the past others have just dropped in

A pansy growing amongst the runner beans

Lemon balm, makes lovely tea,think I will replant this in a pot as it spreads

Bronze Fennel again by the beans, will replant this when it dies back
Camomile I planted this 5 years ago,lots of uses including a relaxing tea

This Bee is a welcome guest! no shortage of them on the marigolds

These Sparrows are in my front garden. this is taken through my home window
These Sarpo Potatoes are still green and healthy although Blight has killed potatoes all around them. have dug some up,they are tasty and a good size only thing is slugs are getting at them as it is sooo wet! will try to dig them up when (if) we get a few days of dry weather

This weeks harvest

Here are the Salad Leaves I sowed weeks ago. think I might start some more!!

Time to look to the future! These are the winter cabbage just waiting for room
Leaminton Cauli,Avron Cauli,January King,Savoy Emerald and Torvoy

Spring Greens and winter onions just sprouting.Sushyu and Sonic onions.Brassicas are Winter Green,April,Early Queen and Flower of Spring,doesnt seem like 5 mins ago I was eating this years!

I,m Still Alive (and so is most of my allotment)

Here we are mid August and it,s quite chilly and very wet! the greenhouse is full of ripening tomatoes but the leaves look very sorry for themeselves :o( I think it,s because it is so damp, i am cutting down a lot of the plant and allowing lower shoots to grow

the beans have decided to live and we had our first meal off of them at the begining of august,they are very late but I am hoping that they will carry on till october if the frost stays away here are the runner beans at last


And the french climbing beans a mixture of Blue Lake and cobra

The pond has a lot of Duckweed on it this year and I am having to net out a lot of dead slugs! don,t mind slugs getting suicidal but not in the middle of my pond!!!

Loads of baby frogs around,have to watch where you walk. I am glad to say our new next door neighbours like frogs

the courgette and squash are doing well,afraid some marrows have had to go to compostas they get ginourmouse very quickly here are the squashes

Last but not least some resent harvests