Plot 83: Allotment: September 2010

Rosie Weeding the Main Beds

As usual at this time of year, the weeds are getting out of control. In the picture above, we look across the main vegetable bed, which we planted with a green manure clover seed earlier in the year. It also contained our garlic, onion and shallots. Out of shot to the right are two lines of rainbow chard, spinach and love-in-the-mist.

Rainbow chard

Rosie is digging the onions, which haven't been great this year. Probably we put them into the ground too late without any prior composting of the soil. The main bed really hasn't been a great success this year, other than the chard, which as usual is fantastic.

Behind Rosie in the pictures above and top are the scraggy pale beans, which have been awful this year, and behind them, the rhubarb, which has been great.

Hannah downs tools for drinking.

We have undertaken the following tasks:

harvesting artichokes, onions, shallots, autumn raspberries, Victoria plums, chard, spinach, and rocket.
weeding creeping buttercup, comfrey, and thistles from the main bed, paths and 'grassy' area around the shed.
digging new bed between the blackcurrant bushes and summer raspberries.
moving rocket, mint, marjoram and horseradish to the new bed.
moving gladioli to newly weeded bed by the gate; and hollyhocks from the main bed to the gladioli bed and in front of the shed.
buying onion sets and daffodils to be planted on our next visit.
harvesting elderberries for wine.
trimming the boundary hedges.
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