Monday 27th June

Took Callum to the allotment on Saturday and did some weeding didn't stay long though . Too hot to go yesterday so stayed at home and did some gardening
Did get to the allotment this morning got there just before ten i regretted it the minute i stepped out of the car (had air con on ) the heat just hit me there were a couple of others there said hello and made my way to my plot ..
Filled my watering can and carefully watered the roots of the courgette and pumpkin they grow every time i go down there must be all the manure they are growing in

this is the tiny baby i took a pic of on thursday it's grown loads     

    i quickly watered my runner beans, french beans and broad beans ,after inspecting the broad beans i saw they were under attack by blackfly however 3 ladybirds were busy on 3 of the plants so with a bit of luck they will work there magic if not it's spray time 

Next lifted the cover to my cage that has the brussels,broccoli and cauliflower it's big enough for me to climb in to thought id have a close look at what was going on under attack whitefly  im going back tomorrow to spray bloody things were flying all over the place no damage to plants yet but im sure it wont be long!! 

     

cauliflower all going well so far just got to be careful with watering now 

very happy first broccoli :)) its very tiny at the moment

       looks like the start of sprouts :)

things are happening with the sweetcorn :)

After looking around things and a bit of watering i was sweating a bit too much i hate being hot thought it best to get home so dug some more new potatoes ,then  locked the shed only to realise i had some celery to plant , so put that in as quick as i could, had a chat with another plot holder then in the car air con on :) way too hot today

Thursday 23rd June

Very rare event today i spent almost 3 hours at the allotment this morning :) edged along the boundary path weeded which took ages between all the veg i swear it rains weeds on that plot!!
dug some more new potatoes for tea first row almost gone now been pleased so far with them they are foremost ,i do have 6 plants that are rocket variety i might dig them up next to compare them

Next i thought it best to get some peas picked counted the pods when i got home i picked 101 :) and there are many more still growing some of the pods were really full others not so i might try a different variety next year but I'm very pleased with the amount of pods growing

pulled some more beetroot today just a couple left now they were small so left them in the ground

Lots of red flowers are appearing on the runner beans had to be careful when weeding around them as bees were busy pollinating them :)
Hoping to take Callum down this weekend to do more weeding he is good at that i only did the strawberry patch the other day and its all weedy again!!
took a pic of my courgette plant again flowering again with more courgettes growing

last here is a pic of the pumpkin plant and tiny pumpkins growing :) will only let it grow 3 so they will hopefully grow big ready for halloween

20th June

Didn't get down to the allotment at the weekend because of the rubbish weather so i went down this afternoon :)
because of the rain loads more weeds had grown so spent a little bit of time weeding then gave up because it was too hot there instead got on with some harvesting.

I decided to try the new potatoes again as its 2 weeks since i last got some this time they were much bigger had them for tea tonight 
Then time to sort out the beetroot couldn't believe the size of them!!! I've never had them grow this big before and i think its still early to harvest them yet compared to when i normally do when growing at home

                   still have more left in the ground but as they are smaller i wanted to get the big ones first

                                                My monster beetroot takes up my whole hand

picked some more strawberries and a radish  decided to leave the peas today and head home as it was too hot

16th June

Been a bit busy this week again so haven't been to the allotment as much as i would like too :(
managed an hour on Monday had a very quick weed around was surprised yet again how fast everything is growing especially the beetroot which i think will be brought home this weekend as it's very big not sure i have enough jars though to pickle it
There were a few strawberries ready so brought them home and picked a couple of pea pods i ate one gave the other to callum loads are ready to be picked so might get them at the weekend ,also brought home a huge courgette it seemed to grow really fast few days before it wasn't ready
I will be doing a big photo update in the next few days might just put it on facebook everything has grown so much and stuff is growing at home too :)

8th June

Busy week been down to the allotment a few times but not for long with dan being in hospital i haven't wanted to venture down there for long
 i went to let dan's workplace know he wouldn't be back very quickly as he has been ill, on the way back we drove past and decided to dig up some new potatoes as I'm sick of pete saying other people have dug theirs
i dug up two plants and grabbed a courgette some mint too :) im going to leave the others in the ground for a bit longer yet
pics of my first potato harvest 

these look bigger than they were :)

first courgette

Wednesday 1st June

Had another busy day today so rushed around to get things done so i could go to the allotment ,Callum did some weeding which has got really bad since the rain
I took some more plants down ,cabbages, cauliflower,swede and my pumpkin got them all planted and had a good weed around

my strawberries are huge!!

swede planted today

pea pods :)

french beans just sprouting :)

spotted these radishes had come through

my pumpkin plant finally in the ground