Only a short visit again today. We had the day off (in part to recover from my triathlon. I do like to think if you were to draw a Venn diagram of twenty something, marathon running, allotment owning triathletes that I might be the sole person in the middle!) so it was nice to spend a few hours tending to the allotment when it felt like we should have been at work.
Top of the list of jobs was to harvest more of our produce – it might be almost October but we are still getting really good amounts of tomatoes, peppers, chillis, runner beans, coutgettes and aubergines. We also took our first sweetcorn home (Pilla is proudly displaying her ears in one of the pictures). The sweetcorn was absolutely delicous for lunch!
We’ve got our first little figs forming. Figs are funny things – they set their fruits late in the year, you over winter them inside so they don’t get hit by frost and they then grow on to be ready the next summer. We currently only have about three of them so we are not expecting a bumer harvest next year!
We started clearing out some of the spent plants in the greenhouse. We’ve cut down one of the tomato plants that had no fruit and also composted the disappointing melon plants. The melon plants had taken great delight in spreading leaves everywhere but had been very reluctant to produce anything remotely melon-like. We then added some manure to the front bed and planted some crocuses and snow drops – they should add a bit of colour to the plot late in the winter.
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