Just beet it

Looks like things have been going smoothly for a week or so now.
The beetroot and chard are coming up, the radishes are almost ready for picking and the lettuce is pretty much there too.

Still a bare spot at the end where the attach took place.

Karen, Jamie & Tom

Lettuce have another go

So, after last week's little set back we have some new additions to the lot. Some little crinkly, leafy fellows in green and red hues.

They seem to be doing pretty well, despite our efforts to scorch them by watering during in the midday sun (naughty naughty). The chard seems to be making an appearance too, so hopefully this will soften the blow when Karen returns from holiday to find her broccoli destroyed.

Karen, Jamie & Tom

Vicious killers

It's been a couple of weeks since I've updated the blog. You may think this is down to laziness and apathy on my part but it's taken me this long to get over the trauma caused by some vicious, monster killing machine.

Jamie said he thought he saw it bounding away and it was the size of an articulated lorry, with teeth like cricket bats.

Needless to say, it's decimated Karen's purple sprouting broccoli and we are mourning their loss.

Luckily, the rest of our seedlings were doing so appaulingly that they hadn't emerged when the beast attacked. We'll still have something to eat in a few months!

Karen, Jamie & Tom.

Absolutely radishing

Don't get too excited, the little green fellows at the end of the plot aren't from our original seeds. Karen has transferred her "purple sprouting" from the back of her car to the allotment. They seem to be doing well, although a few little, brown aphids have started appearing on some of the weaker plants. Nick suggested some kind of miniature sniper (on the back burner for now).

You can't see from the above photograph but there are some radishes appearing halfway down the plot. A whole row of little sprouts. I'm not sure if any of us like radishes, but we'll choke them down in the name of agriculture.


Karen, Jamie & Tom

Sowing the seeds of...

Hooray! After at least half an hour of hard labour we finally have a clump and pebble free patch for our lovely veg.

You can just about see the tiny sticks that mark the vegetables of the future, the first row is swiss chard, then we have cylindra beetroot, closely followed by little gem lettuce and finally some radishes (not for eating, but they should keep the Fraggles off the chard).

Hopefully this blog will be updated with a new photo for each week, but it will also act as an aid to memory because we didn't write down what everything was. Doh!

Karen, Jamie & Tom