Two days in a row – this is a new personal best! Yup, I’ve been back to the allotment and pulled more weeds, tied up some tomatoes and taken some photos of things I spotted.
First, having weeded the area around the raised bed completely, I have found the bed itself is 100% weed-free. Very pleased with that.
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- Tiny golden courgettes.
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- Over really, but hopefully I can save loads of seeds.
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- More golden courgettes. 🙂
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- Nope, not yet.
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- There are loads of ladybirds on the plot.
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- If these bloom I’ll see about 20 tiny sunflowers. 🙂
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- Golden courgette blossom.
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- Wiggly.
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- Spiders everywhere and plenty to keep them happy.
Having done that, and a load more weeding, I then attended to the tomatoes in the polytunnel. I cut back some bits that won’t do anything this year and watered them, for about the fourth time since planting them. I’ll go back tomorrow with some liquid feed – I feel they’ve earned it.
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- Intriguing shape. Unlike the ones in my garden so must be related to care.
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- If anyone tries to steal my tomatoes they will be scared off by this terrifying creation.
Then I took some photos of things on my plot.
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- Inside the empty water butt.
Before I left, I also snapped some of the other things nearby which caught my eye. The pumpkins are absurd – and far bigger than anything else I’ve seen growing. Clearly someone who uses a ‘method’.
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- Pumpkin on bricks. I’ll use straw.
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- Leaves presumably removed to speed ripening.
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- Massive.
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- I’m glad this isn’t on my plot, pretty as it is.
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- Colourful.
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- Fading but still pretty.
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- I desperately need to find a partridge.
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- Comfrey. I’ll be needing that.
The plan is to go back tomorrow and carry on, feed everything and maybe get that second bed filled. Until then…
