We've learned a lot this year, a few mis-haps towards the end of the season......planting too close together to cram as much in as we could , that has been the biggest point to take forward for next year.
We've had good crops of onions,carrots,peas,broadbeans, potatoes, squashes, lettuces , cabbages, cauilflower, chillies and a few tomatoes....plus too many courgettes !!! So we can't complain. Perhaps a little more thought with succession planting so we don't get the glut of some crops that we have had this year.
Anyway, so far we've got all the spuds lifted and stored then the bed dug over. I lifted the last row of beetroot and the remains of the failed swedes yesterday, then weeded and dug over most of bed four. The day before I dug over and weeded bed three all but one corer where the sprouts are still growing.
Hopefully this dig as we lift regime will ease the job of the back end of the year digging ritual. Plus we have put our names down for a second half plot that is next but one to us, so by getting stuck into the plot we have now,if we do get the second half we'll have the time to get it in order. We're jusrt waiting for the allocations officer to get his finger out and give us the nod ! What a system .....it's if your face fits or he thinks you should have a plot.....nothing of a system, which if we are rejected I'll be taking issue with at the AGM in November.......in the meantime the empty plot is just geting over run with weeds, when we could be working it !
Rant over.....lol
Here's how the plot is looking, with the sunflowers now smiling over the plot.
Just a quick update, soon be time for the fishing season to start again and so the lotty will take second place in the priority of spare time use.
