17th July 2013

Not a fan of heat at all so I'm popping down quick to the allotment to water and harvest and heading home its far too hot at the plot.
Thought id do a quick catch up blog as I haven't been posting on facebook recently my cat went missing during Sunday night so I spent all Monday searching and contacting people ...thankfully she came back during the early hours of Tuesday morning ...what a relief!!

I did manage to spend some time at the plot on Monday morning gave the plot a weed and a good water I noticed I had about 6 blackberries ready but I left them there I was very shocked today ( Wednesday) to find lots ready
I have pulled the pea plants up they had finished and started to turn yellow and I'm very happy I am a bit fed up picking them!!

The strawberries are still going strong the problem is they just don't keep well in this warm weather too many to pick!!

The only disaster is the turnips they have bolted I'm not that bothered by this it just made space for some calabrese a plot neighbour gave me so I planted them in the space.

I went to the allotment when my son finished school he was in charge of watering.... I was picking strawberries and the sweat was just pouring off me at one point stinging my eyes!! I dug some charlotte potatoes and picked some blackberries and decided to go home!! I did notice there are many many blackcurrants ready which means I need to spend a very long time picking them!!