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Allotment Diary June 2007

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Saturday 30th June
I pricked out most of the leaf salad, there was so much some is going in the compost!! Pricked out lettuce as well as sowing Cauliflower Andes for a winter crop.

Tuesday 26th June
Mum and dad staked an apple tree which had blown sideways, harvested some salad leaf, raspberries and cut the grass.

Saturday 23rd June
Me, mum and dad went down in the afternoon to harvest some potatoes, a cabbage, spinach, raspberries and some strawberries. We also checked the watering in the greenhouse.

Thursday 21st June
Dad cut the grass, hoed, weeded and watered. Mum sowed Kohl Rabi, 2 rows of Swede, 1 row of Turnip, quarter row Beetroot, some more Spinach and cut Spinach down to 1#x201d; that was there already, some more Rocket and some wallflower seeds. They took down 2 chilli plants and put them in the bottom greenhouse.

Beans growing wellFire pile cleared nicely Wednesday 20th June
Mum put 3 Ailsa Craig tomato plants into bigger pots and continued weeding around beans. Planted remainder of bean seeds where previous sowings had either not germinated or had been eaten. Dad raked fire ash away from back of plot and reseated the incinerator and weeded and hoed on top plot again.

Bottom plot Middle plot Top plot

Tuesday 19th June
Mum weeded on bottom plot around peas, sweetcorn, beans. Dad weeded more on top plot. Harvested a cabbage, salad leaf, spinach and potatoes.

Monday 18th June
Mum and dad took down 24 tomato plants (took 2 trips). Mum put 10 cherry tomato plants into large pots in the greenhouse on middle plot. The Ailsa Craig tomatoes went in the greenhouse on the bottom plot. Dad weeded around the carrots and parsnips. Dad cut grass.

Sunday 17th June
Me and dad went down for an hour before lunch to harvest some produce and to see what had happened while we were away on holiday.
We harvested two plants worth (of 38 total :o) of Pentland Javelin potatoes which are first earlies. We only used half of them with a salad at tea time and the skins are thin, the potatoes are creamy and delicious! We also had our first strawberries of the season, a courgette and another spring cabbage. We pulled some weeds, but the rain has really accelerated their growth while we were away. Everything is growing well and it is looking very green.

Very green potato plants! Onions etc doing goodStrawberry bed again Currant bushesSalad has taken off, fleece took a battering in the weeks of heavy rain Weeds with parsnips and carrots in themBeetroot etc competing with weeds Brassicas under cloches

Saturday 16th June
Got back from holiday to find the pots in the greenhouse a bit too dry, they hadn't been watered since Wednesday. But look quite alright still I am sure they will pick up again soon.

Sunday 3rd June
Me, mum and dad went down in the morning before it got too hot. I planted out two cucumbers and two butternut squash. We gave away some spare squash plants too. Dad cut the grass and watered as well as doing some weeding. Me and mum covered the strawberry bed with three lots of crop netting. Mum planted some brassicas that we had spare to replace ones that had failed.

Sweetcorn, pumpkin and courgette plants on bottom plot A row of beans has come up strongPotato rows looking very green
Butternut squash and cucumber plants gone in Onions and garlic doing wellStrawberry bed covered with pond netting to keep it from attack The soft fruit bushes are doing very wellTop plot brassicas and weeds both doing well Salad under fleece

Saturday 2nd June
I decided to put the shading up in the greenhouse in the back garden because the sun is really quite burning today! This turned into a bigger job than expected as I had to take a couple of pieces of glass out to undo nuts to mount the brackets for the netting wire to go onto. I also planted some lettuce and leaf salad in the greenhouse.