I’m afraid it’s only going to be a short update this week. Partly because we didn’t have very much to do and partly because the space bar doesn’t work properly on our laptop anymore so writing is a bit of a pain.
Thought we would share how the allotment animals are getting on first. The six chickens are now pretty big – and on Friday one of them laid their first egg! They are very friendly things – they are always clucking at you and investigating what you are doing. Bob has made a huge new chicken run for them, so they have been out enjoying that all day today. Of the few cats prowling round our site, the only two that come near to our plot are Tammy and Tommy, both girls, Tammy is the friendly one and Tommy is a bit more skittish. Yesterday when we went to water our toms, we managed to get a picture of Tommy sat on the staging in our greenhouse. She is actually perched on a pair of gloves we had left out!
We harvested our first cucumber – and very tasty it was too. I have a feeling we will be overrun with these soon, this one grew in less than a week and there are quite a few others at the same stage this week. I had last Monday off work and decided to create a small pond made out of the bottom of a blue barrel we had rescued from the skip a few months ago. Today I finished the digging, filled it, and placed some logs around it. We will get a few more of these logs around it over the next few weeks. To be honest, I am not sure how well this pond will do – it’s small, and it is surrounded by gravel. Time will tell I suppose.
Philippa was busy planting out the sunflowers and hunting for the mushrooms that seem to be thriving in the warm wet weather. We have a million lavender plants that needed potting on and lots of our crops needed a bit of a feed.
We have our first dwarf beans and sugar snap peas growing. There are not many at the moment, maybe by the time we get back from Glastonbury there might be a few more.
We also have our first aubergine flower – and the pepper plants we potted on last week seem to be thriving, you can see the start of the flowers now on several of them. We managed to take some more food off the plot today – a plate full of new potatoes, mint and some rocket.
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