[plum crumble]

  OH has just rung me to say he has been to the lottie and picked so many runner beans that it has completely covered the work-surfaces in the kitchen!!!  What on earth am I going to do with them all, as they really don't freeze well!!??

[flitwickone]

sowed winter caulies and hoed all over the plot picked beans etc

then i edged my secong allotment then i had a beer

[Paul Plots]

OH has just rung me to say he has been to the lottie and picked so many runner beans that it has completely covered the work-surfaces in the kitchen!!!  What on earth am I going to do with them all, as they really don't freeze well!!??

We have a spare "summer" fridge lined up for next year to help keep produce fresh. This year we happily give spare to friends and neighbours. 

[Kimberley04]

With the help of my fella and Dad, we did this:

[Paul Plots]

That's a very impressive building Kimberley.

Big for an allotment shed. 

[Kimberley04]

It's a cross between a Summer house and a shed - it's a summer shed!

[Paul Plots]

It's a cross between a Summer house and a shed - it's a summer shed!

BIg enough for a wood-buring stove and lodgers. 

[sunshineband]

It's a cross between a Summer house and a shed - it's a summer shed!

BIg enough for a wood-buring stove and lodgers. 

 

Fabulous shed/summer shed there 

[goose]

room for a pony?

[teasmade!]

well everything else is up to date, harvesting more veg than i thought would be possible in the first year so really pleased!! (especially since a few old boys scoffed at us as it hadn't been used in 30 years!!)

even a 50p sale pumpkin plant that has a massive pumpkin (well you never know??) and getting bigger by the day!!

Now making a start on the paths as we didn't have time to make them flat and even, will be glad not to twist my ankle evnetually!!

[Robster]

Like everyone else, harvesting loads, beans toms chillies and squash, cabbages and caulis.
I have planted up lots of potatoes in boxes for autumn harvesting.  I also have reserved four of my first early Arran Pilot to go in for Christmas potatoes

[kosh42|EFG]

Weeding, harvesting salad leaves, and more weeding.

Also trimmed some side shoots on my cherry tomatoes. As they were given to me I have no idea of the variety so am not sure if it was the right thing to do or not...

[Paul Plots]

Weeding, harvesting salad leaves, and more weeding.

Also trimmed some side shoots on my cherry tomatoes. As they were given to me I have no idea of the variety so am not sure if it was the right thing to do or not...

Variety shouldn't make too much difference and a trim won't hurt. 

[stompy]

Chopped down the weeds again and covered.
Watered/weeded the squashes and brassicas for it to then rain for hours and hours and, you get the idea 

Removed side shoots from the toms and nipped out the growing tips on the Cherry red and Sungold toms as they have now reached the roof, each plant has around 6 to 7 trusses.
The Cherry red has litterally hundreds of flowers and small toms forming.

Also chopped back the Roma leaves as they were encroaching into the Chillie Cayenne's air space.

[sunshineband]

Took seven builder's bucketfuls of stones out of the bed that is next for the carrots. Dug in two huge bags of 'recycled' old compost.

Sowed two ten foot rows of carrots (Early nantes and Autumn King) and covered them with my new environmesh cloche tunnel I bought last week 

Reserved the giant marrow from the Age Concern plot next door, so that the children at school can take it to the Autumn Harvest Day at Newbury Showground in September.

They can't enter it in the competition - which is for pumpkins anyway - but they will enjoy being able to have it there