23 June 2007 Warm, 22c, sunny but heavy showers later
Spuds, hurrah. Lift spuds from 2 plants of the excellently named 'International Kidney'. About 2.5 / 3 pounds from the two plants, which looked like there were ready as they were wilting. Photo of this allotment gold above.
Also more raspberries- straight in the freezer, must have about 2.5 pints now.
Cabbage plants are growing quickly except 2 which have taken an eating from something.
One of the pumpkin plants had rotted at the stem, my book tells me this is 'basal stem rot'. Took it out, t'others look ok, for now
Sowed more lettuce and radish and weeded around the sickled the grass edges.
Also killed about 20 slugs and snails. A first hardly saw any but then it was dry for weeks on end, now it's been raining quite a lot they are appearing everywhere, we need some hedgehogs and thrushes on site, but no sign of either. I think thrush have dropped out of the top 10 spotted UK birds recently. I have never seen one in 10 years in London, though I always see loads up in Essex and remember they used to sing outside my classroom at Primary school. A small pond may help if frogs take to it?
