As summer closes, the allotment gets going

• By Alison
• 19 October, 2007
• 1 Comment

I haven’t really updated you with all the goings on at the allotment (the whole two beds!). That’s mostly because the weather has been totally shite,
all my tomatoes got blight, and I need to end this sentence in flight…

With apologies to Chris W for the poetic miasma there!

Actually, the biggest problem has been that I kept taking photos on my mobile phone. And until now have had no way to get them off. Turned out it was a
processing error. My brain wasn’t processing the information at hand very well! But a final google of the right key words found the answer (did you notice
that I used google as an adjective there? And I didn’t use a capital letter or trademark sign? Google should really do more to protect their brand
otherwise it will fall into mainstream use and be declared non trademarkable! But I digresss.).

So in full living (and some dying) colour, here are my crops! Brassicas and carrots first…

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While the tomatoes may have died, the peppers are looking lovely…

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And this is dd2’s pumpkin…

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And here are some peas!

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I don’t think I will plant peas again. They were lovely, but the effort put into shelling peas far outweighs the resulting meal! I am keen to try some
interesting beans though.

The carrots were transplanted, and so they yielded some VERY interesting shapes! They all stunted at the point of transplant, and great legs, arms, willys –
you name it.

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I certainly wouldn’t do the asparagus peas either, for all they looked interesting, they were husky and unpleasant to eat.

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I did take photos of the blighted tomatoes – two plum bushes and two cherry’s at the allotment and three in the backyard. But I refuse to put them on here!