The chickens we jointly look after have got their laying groove on – we found three eggs on Saturday and another two today.  We had a further six waiting for us in the allotment fridge, as you can see they are a massive assortment of sizes and shapes but all the better for that I think.  If we wanted perfect looking food I suppose we could just go to the supermarket – but that would mean missing the excitement of rooting around nest boxes!

Our harvest from the allotment is now notching up a gear – this week we’ve taken home a lot of new potatoes, cucumbers, mint, raspberries, broad beans, sugar snap peas and a few different lettuces.  Most of this produce has been eaten straightaway – only some of the broad beans have had to go in the freezer.  The lettuce has been really successful and was delicious with tonight’s dinner.

We only spent a few hours at the plot late this afternoon – after the morning run for Pilla’s half-marathon training we had a nap – it’s taken us a week, and we still haven’t recovered from Glastonbury!  Luckily the plot is taking care of itself a lot these days so we just had a bit of allotment ‘admin’ to do – weeding, watering, a tiny bit of planting out and adding support to some of the plants.  I tied up the sweet peas at the front of the plot whilst Pilla took the weeds out of all the beds.  The advantage that we got when we took on this plot was the lack of weeds – it took around an hour but Pilla managed to weed the whole plot.

I also added a bit of support to the tomatoes – some of which are now up to the roof of the greenhouse.  After some watering and feeding that was pretty much us done.  I think we might have spent longer harvesting our crops and taking pictures than we did doing ‘proper’ jobs – that’s how allotment life should be I think!