busy harvesting broad beans beetroot carrots kale and the last few strawberries

planting out my cabbage plants

Hi all
  well today i have been mending a spade handle and generally having a tidy up , things have  started to move on and at last i have a few potatoes peeping through the baulks . set a few runners to replace the ones the frost wiped out last week

hi today i been mending my fence and tidying the front of the plot up even found the original kerd complete with number ,also set some sweetcorn in pots and a few more runners just in case we get a late frost,had a hoe round the redbeet as they just big enough to s beans are looking good and Broad  beans are growing well after the disaster of the autumm sown ones.

hi today i have been

putting another 2 rows of sharps express early potatoes in to join the 2 rows of duke of york  ones i put in during the week . next i set a couple of trays of low beans to try and get a early start and hope they escape a frost attack ,hoed the onion bed ,broad bean patch then home to listen to the city play leeds on the radio

sitting on computer trying to find a way to make the font bigger when i try to post in this forum

I've been watching the rain and thinking "Great". I'm going to get cracking on the digging and clearing the last few brambles to spud it up in the spring.Space at the front; need to call Alan and get a delivery. 

First I've got to get my lean to built in the back garden; clear some space to finally transplant

my hazel and dogwood saplings. Hope the chickens haven't killed them with all their scratching.   

Scarecrow it was a lovely meeting and I really enjoyed talking to you.  I hope I will see you at the pple pressing and  at the other events I am organising too.  Please stop to chat if we are on the allotment together. Sharon

Hi Scarecrow, the caterpillars have reduced my cabbages to skeletons too.  Did your cucumber get the mildew.  My courgettes got it and have died as wth the butternut squash.  I think they were too squashed in.  Shame, because the courgettes were brilliant last year.  I think we have learned that you just can't water the allotment too much to water it double to what anyone else says. We plan to double dose it with horse manure this autumn for next year.  I was speaking to another allotment holder who had done just that and his allotment is beautiful.  Hope to see you at the applepressing sausage sizzle.  Sharon

hi i been having a tidy up .After a summer of hardly any caterpillers they certainly back with a fengence and are attacking eery thing in sight .Had a disappointing year for my cucumber plant it started so well and grew at a terrific rate and soon produced 5or 6 cues but then it started to look ill and has all but died after last years 30 plus cues off one planted this has has really been a downer .

Hi i been haing a tidy up and started lifting the red potatoes in the other patch also set a row of salad onions and radishes hoping for a warm spell to get them going

This week, I have mostly been clearing the peas and beans patches, and in their place planting some oriental salad and Kohl Rabi (or however you spell it!). Gardeners World reckoned it was worth planting some now as it should come up pretty quickly, so here's hoping it works out well :D

hi been a busy time picking and freezing the  beans ,had the first of the plums and see i got a second crop of raspberries appearing. Good at last to a bit of sun shine and the temp going up.

Hi Not a lot Doing at the moment seem to spend most of the time dodging showers and gathering beans for the freezer the runners have been a surprise as they looked quite sorrow for themselves early on but have recovered well and am quite pleased with them. 

Have to think about another compost heap as the amount of waste generated from all the veg is enourmous

been busy gathering veg and planting out some all year cauli's ,have a very good row of second peas most of which i eat as i pass by the row .

the first of my cucumbers are almost ready to munch so soon be able to provide the whole salad supplies for my diet as the scarecrow is on a shrinking mission and has consumed lots of the stuff in his effort to lose weight.

the other day i met the lady responsable for the new notice bords on the water tubs a very enjoyable encounter .