Bludy blight... blub blub blub

I knew blight was around on the allotment but last week the tomatoes were just too small to be worth picking - of course all 20 plants have been decimated now. Very depressing. Got maybe 10% of the fruit off the plants that looked viable - all green so I'll have to look into chutney I suppose. Touch wood the plants in the garden and greenhouse are all ok.

Feeling a bit like giving up on the whole plot and speaking to the allotment secretary and handing 50% over to someone on the waiting list. Might make the plot more manageable. No doubt then I'll run out of growing space. Ahhhrrr I dunno. Maybe I should press on for the the first year to see if things get better.

A lotto work

Cleared more space, removed about 6 barrowful's of weed, planted out some french beans 9(a bit late but hey ho). Put some mustard down too. Wilko's doing 75% off on seeds so picked up a few packs.

Was a good day on the plot.

Born to Roam

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Weeds like humid conditions

Hot and humid today at the allotment - apparently its been like it all week here. Spent a couple of hours weeding - some of my leeks are coming along pretty well. Others a bit stunted in comparison though I guess they will catch up. Pink fir potatoes seem to be struggling - the plants look very straggly and the tubers are very small. Its a bit early for them I suppose, but I would have thought there would be a bit more to them than there is. I shall water 'em a bit more and maybe try and give them a boost with a tomato feed.

Pulled a few onions and (of course) a load of courgettes. Ratatouie is probably the culinary answer to the courgette mountain question...

Sawfly - urrgh

Wet weather scuppered the camping holiday a bit - and my plans to hit the allotment today - its tipping down here. Yesterday was pretty nice so i spent half a day sorting the back garden. Noticed that the gooseberry bush has been stripped of foliage. I'm guessing it was sawfly, but a quick search didn't show up any caterpillars - probably nothing left to devour. Whatever, its likely to affect my crop next year. Bah and humbug.

The raspberries have done very well this year - my best fruit by a long shot. I've taken lots of rootings from the bush and will stick a load down on the allotment.

One apple from the cox's pipin in the front garden, one pear in the back garden - the pear didn't seem to produce any fruit at all, the apple tree just saw the small fruit fall off at an amazing rate. Need to research why that might have happened.