bring this blog right up to today!
Despite all the rain I’ve been lucky in that the weather has been fine on all the days that I’ve been here over the past couple of weeks.
Digging and weeding still continues to occupy most of my time, with the former being just a bit heavy going in places after last Friday’s deluge.
The weeds are contributing to an ever growing heap down in the far corner, and will probably be burnt later on.
Around three quarters of the plot has now been forked over. This view is from about half-way down the western side of the plot looking towards the north-east corner. The two pallets are where I’m intending putting a very small shed (more on this next week) and rest area. You can see the roadway, and above the pallets on the other side is the water tap and tank.
The three brown sticks in the picture are last years sunflowers which I shall remove eventually!
On Sunday fellow allotmenteer Leslie, kindly gave me a marrow. I’m not that keen so today I gave it to Cally at the bookshop who does like them.
Joe, a diminutive Italian in his late 60s, also said to help myself to a marrow and lettuce. I said thanks and would later on in the week. His plots are a superb example of what can be achieved, being full of vegetables, flowers and some soft fruit. I see him most days I’m there and we always have a chat.
Flighty's plot 
Back home after three weeks and I am overwhelmed by the garden!
What can I do with two courgettes that weigh 4lb and 5lb respectively?
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Uphilldowndale welcome home! In three weeks I bet that the garden has become a bit of a jungle.
I’m not keen on courgettes/marrows so can’t really offer any suggestions.
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Yum! I love marrow 🙂 Uphilldowndale, check out this link for several courgette recipes: http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/07/summer-of-the-bats/
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Game on, we shall give it a go!
Zucchini bread, could this be a way of getting greens in to my boy!
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Nikki Cally told me that she really enjoyed the marrow I gave her. I shall have a look at your link and see if there’s anything I might try!
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Uphilldowndale good for you! Do let us know how you get on.
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Job done, yummy
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Isn’t this amazing. Those sunflowers must have grown at full pelt and height. We get titchy specimens here as it is so much cooler.
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Menhir hello! I finally removed them a week or two back. They were about 8 feet high. I saved some seeds which I’ll sow next year in the hope that some at least will grow. There are some on other plots a lot taller than that.
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