Allotment Diary September 2006

Saturday 30th September
Me and dad went down watered and checked around.

Wednesday 27th September
Mum and dad weeded on top and bottom plots. Watered in greenhouse and harvested carrots, cucumber, courgettes, peas and lettuce.

Monday 25th September
Mum and dad found it was quite wet with dew so weeded on top plot underneath the black matting. Brought home bag of rubbish. Harvested tomatoes and peas.

Sunday 24th September
Me, mum and dad went down in the afternoon and lifted a row of the maincrop potatoes (Desiree). Filled 2.5 sacks and weighing in at 66kg of potatoes, most were free from slug damage and those that had some were separated out. We also lifted 3 parsnips, a couple of carrots and harvested some more courgettes. For the time of year it is still very warm and I had shorts and a T-shirt on even though I was taking it fairly easy with the digging I still got a real sweat on!

Saturday 23rd September
Me and dad went down just before tea to get a parsnip and some carrots for tea.

Thursday 21st September
Mum washed some more plant pots and harvested tomatoes and broccoli. Dug out broccoli plants to compost. Dad and mum weeded bottom plot. Brought home bag of rubbish.

Monday 18th September
Mum and dad barrowed down stones to site skip. Ball barrow ball burst so put that in skip also. Harvested some peas and tomatoes.

Saturday 16th September
Me and mum went down in the afternoon. We planted 32 lettuce (ATYR) in the greenhouse and a couple of 4 foot rows outside. We also planted about 10ft of spring cabbage (April) outside as the heat in the greenhouse is affecting the seedlings growth and some have died. We harvested some carrots, a parsnip, tomatoes, cucumbers, courgette, Callibrese, spinach, 3 pumpkins and put the three plants in the compost. The remaining cabbage were dug up and put on the fire as they had club root or were rotting (only 3 of them).

Wednesday 13th September
Me, mum, dad, Shirley and Johnny went to the allotment in the evening while they were visiting. We harvested some courgette and cucumber.

Monday 11th September
Mum thinned turnip seedlings and harvested carrots, tomatoes and spinach. Brought home garlic and strung it up. Mum and dad weeded by turnips and where sweetcorn and dwarf French beans had been. Dad mowed some grassed areas. Watered in greenhouse.

Sunday 10th September
We went down in the afternoon for the allotment competition and we won the tallest sunflower prize (the only category that we entered). We received a bottle of wine as the prize.

Wednesday 6th September
Mum around lettuce and wallflowers area and transplanted some crowded lettuce. Dad cut a lot of grassed areas and did some weeding too. Watered in greenhouse.

Tuesday 5th September
Mum and dad brought two round flagstones home from the plot to use as stepping stones to the composter bin. Harvested tomatoes and courgettes.

Monday 4th September
Mum and dad bought a composter bin for use at home.

Sunday 3rd September
Me, mum and dad went in the morning and harvested quite a lot. We brought home kohl rabi, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, spinach, cucumber, courgette, cauliflower, sweetcorn and butternut squash. The spring cabbage are germinating well in the greenhouse. Dad weeded a few more lids full of weeds and tidied around the plots.