Sweetcorn about 1m high -- possibly a little too close together but we'll see if that affects the yield.
Mange tout past their best -- leaving them now to see how they come out as simple peas.
The weather has been very humid and now showery; the heat wave is finally breaking.

Harvested first potatoes, good yield, plus a couple of the larger red onions, an odd carrot or two and plenty more peas of course.


Waether very hot, over 30 C, but a bit of a breeze so not as bad as it could be.

Peas are in full flow and I'm now picking more than we can eat.
Potatoes are starting to die back, especially the large bed on the left; have been mulching over some of them with the straw/menu mix.
Got a single courgette from mum and planted that on far right between the squashes and leek seedlings.
The weather has been mostly cloudy, but very little rain and the ground is getting very dry.

The sweetcorn is growing well.

Planted my leek seedlings from pots plus some smaller ones from mum. They've gone into the bed next to the squashes, plus in the space next to the smaller bed of potatoes where the previous leeks ran to seed.

Levelling the ground in front of the new shed. Taken the lawnmower back home, pending repair.

Cabages being shreded -- presumably by pigeons -- so covered with fleeece over a frame made from some alu poles.
Remaining leeks all gone to seed, so pulled up and dug over their bed.
Started to mulch between sweetcorn plants, either with just grass or some of the straw/menure mix.
Peas coming on nicely although not much to support them so added another level of string between the poles over thier bed.

Back from a few says camping - rather cool and wet few days. Nothing much is growing very quickly, but plenty of weeding and grass clearing to do.
Before we went away planted out all the remaining veg's - including the squashes along th eback and all the sweetcorn in the area dug over for that.
Hacked-sawed into shed#12 adjacent to the plot (after consulting with Lawrence) as I can swap my previous shed to this one. Inside was a sturdy looking petrol rotary mower plus a rotavator, that look like they were the tools left from previous society lottery grant purchases.

Continued to work on the sweet corn bed - dug over and leveled. Bought some sweetcorn seedlings and transplanted into pots at home ready to plant out.
Bought some more peas to fill in gaps in main pea area.
Planted most of the cabages from pots in bed, bottom 2nd from left, and covered with a polytunnel for now. Gave up with dwarf bean seeds -- nothing germinated or all got eaten.
Planted some bought dwarf beans in top bit of 3rd from left bed - about 3" high. Lets see if they survive.
Purchased some carrot and beetroot seedlings and planted in Michael and Tom's beds.
Dug over the squash bed -- bottom right -- and dug in a little of the menu/straw/wood chippings mix from allotment site.
Weather: Been cloudy for a few days and rained alot late on Saturday. Cool, cloudy but dry on Sunday.

Finished extending the bed for sweetcorn; now it's 5' by 14' and all dug over.
Using excess soil to earth up the potatoes, which are doing very well.
Weeded the peas (Mum) and put some string over whole area to support peas if they get that high; very damaged shoots so far; string should help to keep off pigeons. Not much help if damage was from slugs or mice though.
To right of sweetcorn bed dug over a smallish area and planted 12 broad beans, bought from Woldens. Planted thru' holes in plastic matting.
Finally dug up last of leeks and finsihed digging over that whole bed.

Potatoes doing well -- up to 6" high. Building up soil around plants with any spare soil available. BOth areas still covered with fleece.
Planted dwarf beans in bottom left bed next to peas. Two rows about 6" apart. Covered with black liner until they germinate. Will need support when start to grow.
Planted rhubarb in bottom right corner, where original leeks were. Deep pit filled with compost, mulched with wood chippings.
Gave up on carrots and beetroot. Dug over M and T's areas and replanted. Removed the poly-tunnels. Noticed that original carrot seed packet was from 1996!
Moved smaller round compost bin and started to dig out the area that will be for sweetcorn.

Potatoes starting to come thru; replaced black liner by fleece.
Peas showing also, but lots of weeds.
No sign from carrots or beetroot.
A little bit of rain today but mostly dry recently.

Plan of plot

Click here to see a plan of the plot so far.

A bit of rain this week, plus temperatures much milder.
Planted potatoes (Charlotte in large middle bed, and Vivaldi in one of the smaller middle bed).
Onions -- white, red and shallots -- next to potatoes. Transplanted some of the small leeks, dug up some of the larger ones for dinner.
Tom sowed carrots under his poly-tunnel.

Dug over the 4'x12' area in sw corner. Menured, composted and planted 4 rows of peas.
Michael helped with planting garlic, beetroot and carrots in his bit - 2'x12' in se corner. Covered with a poly-tunnel (18"x9' - £10 from Homebase).
2nd poly tunnel covering a dug-over area to "warm the ground", but no compost added yet.

Continuing to dig the plot over. Marked out various beds and dug over / compost in.
Raspberries cut-down, soil broken up and a mulch added.
Maybe 60% total area dug over now.
So far, I have added:
1 bag bone-meal (AA - £4),
8 bags of manure (Thompson's - £26),
10 bags of peat-free componst (B&Q - £20).

Welcome

Starting February 2006 I have a plot at Cheyne Walk Allotment Site.
The plot is 45A.
Also got hut number 23.