Another glorious summers day in Manchester arrived today.  Oh no, hang on, sarcasm is quite difficult to do in a blog!  It’s pretty much been non-stop rain today so we didn’t get much done.  Handily enough though we don’t really have a lot to do anyway.  Allotmenting is a pretty curious beast – just at the point you think it’s going to be all hands on deck for the summer, well that’s the exact point when you don’t have to do very much.  We had a bit of weeding to do and the plants in the greenhouse needed a good watering and that was about it really.   The greenhouse plants seem to be doing really well – we had our first tomato and sweet pepper on Saturday.

We had another good harvest – plenty of runner beans, potatoes, salad leaves, cucumbers (we are currently a bit overrun with them), a few courgettes, thyme, mint and chives.  The courgettes are proving to be curious things.  We have four plants and the two yellow courgette plants are going great guns producing quite a few fruits (I had a quick discussion with Pilla, and we *think* it’s a fruit) the green courgettes are proving a little more stubborn.  This is despite the fact that they have lived side by side since the first leaves appeared.  Why the difference?  Who knows!

Some of our garlic has flopped over so we took the opportunity to dig one up see how it was doing – and it’s actually a pretty good size.  We’ve left it drying out in the greenhouse, I’ll try and take a picture next week.  Pilla had some Treasurer duties to attend to by signing up a new plot holder and that was pretty much it – we were home for lunch.  In the depths of winter we would have loved a few allotment days like that!