Ellie and I went down this afternoon. Our plan was to water everything under cover and to dig out more of the second bed. Ellie got on with the digging and I went over to water the carrots. I could see two carrots poking through the bristly ox-tongue, so I opened up the frame to do a bit of weeding.

Oops.

So, today we got three things done: Watering, digging, and rebuilding the carrot frame. Three out of two ain't bad.

The allotment is now looking rather neat in places, which is very pleasing. Here's the first area, by the gate.





The onions are finally looking like actual onions - about 2 1/2 inches across.

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I did a lot of weeding last night around the sweetcorn and artichokes, which I hope they'll thank me for by growing nicely. :)

[Left: before, after]

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Finally, the soft fruit cage is passing from the raspberries into the redcurrant season. I picked a small box of raspberries last night, but there weren't really any left after that.

Marrows!

The courgette plants have been getting on very happily for the last few weeks, especially with all the rain. We harvested about 8 large courgettes/marrows from them at the weekend, with a few normal-sized courgettes left behind for now - I expect they'll be huge when we actually get round to harvesting them.

Everything else is coming along nicely too - it's all covered in some way or another to keep the birds and rabbits from eating everything.

And the last of the cabbage went in this weekend. It's winter cabbage, I think, so it'll be a while before it's ready.

So that just leaves harvesting and continuing to fight back again encroaching weeds...