A lot of work to do.......

Wow! What a bargain

 

A quick update...

I've been busy working etc recently, so clearing the plot just hasn't happened, all I have managed to do, is the occasional weeding/hoeing of planted areas, the rest has got a little overgrown.

Here are a few pics of how the plants etc are doing.

some chillis :-













These are going to be VERY HOT !! :-





Cucumbers :-



Cucamelon

Notice the Dragon fly in the first pic





Runner Beans :-



Tommies :-





Polytunnel pics :-

 

And some harvested veg ....

Got these off on the 4th July :-






And these yesterday :-

My Shetland Black Potatoes..



And the rest (potatoes are from first pic)......

 

And a boring Walkaround ......

 

Brilliant!

I'm very jealous of your runner beans ( where's the 'green with envy' smilie?) as ours have been rabbited . Our replacements are coming on OK - after the rabbits had been served in a pot.

All your chillies look good. Have you had any ripe ones from my plant? We've been eating them for a few weeks.

 

Thanks, as I have told Donna, the beans are only just starting, so I think we are going to be getting plenty when they step up a gear. It is the Dwarf French Beans that she really likes, as she has never had 'fresh' always from a tin ...... I may have converted her

I know how you feel about rabbits having a nibble, I have lost one sweetcorn and a couple of bean plants to them, so I have been lucky in a way that they didn't decimate my plants.

I've had couple of chillis from your plant yes, picked and straight into my mouth, the first one I had gave me hiccups, they have got nice heat and flavour, I didn't know what kind of heat to expect.

 

The chilli plants have been a bit surprising this year. I have about twenty of them and all have been grown from seeds from just one chilli. The plants have produced different sized and shaped chillies and with different amounts of heat. None of them are the same as the parent plant! The parent plant is three years old and always produces very small, pretty hot, chillies - just like its own parents and grandparents .

All the new plants have much bigger chillies that are not as hot - but the flavour is pretty good. Obviously there has been some cross pollination. I have three or four of them with each meal - but not with my porridge.

Re damage:
Rabbits - 43 runner bean plants, 11 French beans, all our marrows, five courgettes, all our sunflowers, all our cosmos and a load of others.
Shiney - four rabbits, and no more losses.

 

As I say, I think I have got away lightly, as the allotment has got a high population of Rabbits, but I have planted a lot of plants later than I should, so maybe I planted when the plants weren't so tender and tasty ?

 

I think that the rabbits found out that our cat was no longer with us!