Picked this week - 26th October 2014

 For a while, I thought this was going to be a lean week - the tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and courgette above were all hubby brought home from a mid-week trip to the allotment...

fortunately we both went down on Saturday...

 more soft fruit..

 a bunch of spinach and american land cress

 another courgette, a bit small but I'd sooner pull it than it get frosted

 clearing more tomato plants

 tiny cabbage and equally tiny handful of broccoli

 better luck with radishes

a mix of various beans and peas

and this week's flowering 'weeds' - verbena bonariensis and love in a mist

Picked this week - 24th August 2014

 Back from holiday to find the allotment overflowing with fruit and veg.
Not so many blackberries but the autumn raspberries and late season strawberries are cropping now which brings back a taste of summer in a wet week.





Quite a bit of rhubarb

 

and our first plums - though a lot are damaged by maggots!






Lovely peppers from the greenhouse.

 Picking the cabbages small before the caterpillars munch through them







Later pea rows starting to crop

There's no lettuce but fortunately I have some spinach rowing both at the allotment and in the garden

 A handful of french beans - and a big bag of runners







Surprised that I didn't find huge marrow-sized courgettes waiting for me but perhaps the weather has been a little too cool

It hasn't stopped the cucumbers in the poly greenhouse though

or the tomatoes

 I'm very pleased with the crop of yellow poire jaune tomatoes from the 'home' greenhouse

and I wouldn't want to miss this week's flowers

sweet peas, rudbeckias, montbretia and carnations

Picked this week - well ,two weeks - 17th August

 I had computer problems last week so couldn't post my usual wekly round-up, so here's a bumper harvest of all manner of things starting with several small cabbages.

 Peppers! probably the best I've ever grown - and there are more to come.

The later pea rows are starting to crop now.








Lots of beans - runners,french and a few borlotti

 starting to lift the onion crop

 Lots and lots of blackberries, the occasional raspberry or strawberry, windfall pears and apples which had to be picked as they were too heavy for the tree!

 Cucumbers...





 and another with courgettes and tomatoes....

and more - one green and strange crystal lemon

July in the garden - veg and fruit

 Gardening seems to be all about fruit picking at the moment - lots of redcurrants, blackcurrants and raspberries (even if they are hiding behind the feverfew)












The vegetable beds are dominated by this - a solitary brussel sprout that never got moved to the allotment

One side of the path has beans and sweet peas trying to climb up a wigwam

the other has mangetout peas

rocket

 At the foot of these wigwams are small salad veg - lettuce, spinach, rocket etc - and another 'left-behind' - a savoy cabbage

savoy cabbage

this seed bed should have been FULL of small winter cabbages and leeks but this is all that survived attacks by slugs and snails

 In the greenhouse tomatoes and grapes are filling but nothing ripening yet