Anyone with an allotment?

I’ve ordered something to treat blight. If it is blight.

It’s annoying really I’ve had a really good crop of tomato’s the last 3 years then just before cropping something goes wrong. 😥

Some spuds lifted today, Colleen on table mostly slugged, Kestrel variety on rack untouched by the slimy fuckers. The rows were 4ft apart at most. Fussy bastards slugs are!

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Carrots need a finer soil...

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Edible flowers

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Always good for brightening up a salad. If the seed pods develop you can pickle them and they magic into capers.

Struck gold yesterday. Black gold 😉

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Top tip ta!

Lovely!

Ah is that the cause of tiny chunky carrots then 😅 we tried quite hard to ensure a fine soil in our carrot bed, so we thought. Nothing over 5cm long pulled so far though

I was so bored at work yesterday

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I'm going to dig in sand and fine compost for next year. They look amazing until pulled.

Yeah we have purple carrot tops that are about 4 feet high, but underground there's just a nub

What do I need to do with my artichokes? Do they get cut back or left to die back?

These are damn tasty still. I hope to have same taste more depth next year.

I leave them to die back. Not sure if best but they keep growing still.

Ta that makes things easier. I do need to thin them out at some point

Another solid spud and tomato haul yesterday and got a couple of beds dug over and covered. Making plans for next year. Knocked 4 smaller beds into 2 big square jobs which felt like a good move.
Want to make some fleece/mesh tunnels to protect the next round of onions and whatever else we decide to grow over winter. The front bed/fire pit area has completely overgrown with shite over the last couple of weeks, need to put some thought into that one.

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This weekends spud harvest!

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Good tomato crop and is that your green poly house thingy in the second pic?

Nice. Looks like you avoided the slugs there as well. Ours are a bit scabby but ok.

Yeah it’s our tunnel, tbh we’ve not made best use of it, full of overgrown tomatoes and cucumber vines. Has been great for the chillis tho. Def need to rethink our use of it but it’s worth it for sitting in during the random showers this year.

Yes, somehow very few got munched. They are the Anya variety, if that makes a difference to the slugs? I didn't bother mounding up so a few are a bit green, lesson learned there.

Boston squash has taken off. Size 9 for reference.

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Is that variety of potato slug resistant

When do folks normally harvest their sweetcorn? Some of mine are looking great but others are really lagging behind.