All the potatoes are doing fantastically well despite the drought.
The grass is getting brown though
The birds got all the redcurrants but we have got more fruit.
More thriving potatoes, but the plot next to us has rather a bad case of blight developing
I have been spending quite a bit of time here - picking gooseberries
This years' harvest was 17lb - all go which I have topped and tailed and they are now weighed, bagged and in the freezer
The raspberries were the size of small peas, but really juicy and tasty - almost 2lb are now in the freezer - a poor crop this year
We picked half a bag if broad beans - they too were smallish, but perfectly formed and I couldn't resist eating a few raw. 2lb of those in the freezer now - of course more to pick over the coming weeks
We dug up 6 early potato plants and got 12lb. We had some today and they were delicious and taste of butter. Old Geoff was up there and came over for a chat, and was amazed that we could dig out potatoes up - the other plots can't as the ground is like concrete. I guess all the hard work putting well rotted manure down, is finally paying off after all these years
We dug a couple of deep holes and filled them with manure, poured in two cans of water for each pumpkin - that should get them off to a good start.
The pumpkins growing on the compost bins are mainly self sown - how they survived the winter I do not know - but these have grown from the rotted pumpkins from last year - they got a good soaking too.
I got stung by a wasp - there is a wasp nest at the end of out shed - outside!
Do I live and let live - or do I do something about it. I will see.
If they leave me alone and I will leave them alone!
Time to make my weary way home
