Allotment Geekery

Almost a month away from the allotment and the weeds are beyond a joke, on Saturday we spent three hours there.  Whilst MozzyMr was in the polytunnel tending to his tomatoes (seriously this is a preview of what he's going to be like as an old man, he'll be talking to those plants soon) I dug up two heaped wheelbarrows full of weeds and I still have half a plot to go!  To top it off because of the cool, damp weather the veg isn't really doing much, we're getting one or two courgettes but they're no thicker than your index finger, the peas have perked up a bit, and of course we have an abundance of tomatoes to come but they're still green, it has been weeks I was hoping for at least one to be ready by now, meh.

The lavender is doing well and I've let three of our spring onions go to flower because I love how they look.  Following such a hectic June we're not planning on doing much at all this July so it'll be lots of time on the allotment and hopefully some trips to the studio as well...

Allotment Geekery

A couple of weeks ago we found these wire bakery trays at the dump, hung above our plot in the polytunnel it almost doubles the amount of space we have for germinating seeds and generally growing stuff.

MozzyMr with the peas and courgettes.

We let the tomato plants get a bit pot bound so it was time to get them in the plot, with the wire baskets freeing up lots of space they finally got the root room they needed.  The plan is to plant basil amongst the tomatoes, Monty told me it was a good idea... bloody love Monty.

Rocking crazy allotment hair!

Interesting Things Growing in the Kitchen

We've been growing some closed cup mushrooms this time rather than the posh ones we were growing a while ago. When they're growing they look just like those pixie/fairy house illustrations you see in children's books. Whilst I have a slight issue with the mouldy, fungusey nature of the mushrooms they do look super cute and taste amazing. The kit was a bargain £3.99 at Aldi and we've had absolutely tons of mushrooms from the kit so far and they don't look like they're going to stop any time soon either.

Allotment geekery

Sunday saw MozzyMr and I working on the allotment, so far the cabbages are going well:

The garlics are coming along a treat:

The tomato seedlings we had growing on the kitchen window sill have been re-potted and moved to the the polytunnel ready to be planted in our raised bed properly when they're a little stronger.

The first batch of potatoes are in:

And the carrot plot has been weeded, raked and fleeced to warm the soil, in a couple of weeks we'll dig it through, sieve it and plant our carrot seeds out.

We harvested our first crop of purple sprouting broccoli as well, it was a bit buggy and needed a good wash but was delicious and was well worth the 4 or so month wait.  Things are getting exciting again on the plot and I hope this year we'll expand range of veg and have a year of good eating...