Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables: Update, late jobs to do at the allotment.

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Update, late jobs to do at the allotment.

The first frosts are due soon and this will bring an end to picking raspberries. The good news is we have a fine crop of parsnips waiting to be harvested when we need them after the first frost.

Still some tidying up to do on the plot. Once the raspberries have finished, the autumn fruiting canes will be cut down. As the new canes that grow next season will be the ones that produce the fruit.

I have to thank my wonderful husband for all the time and effort he put into helping me get the allotment 'in order'. As on my own it had been impossible to lay paths and clear some of the deep rooted brambles that we had on the plot.

Eventually with his help, we got to the stage where it had paths and looked like a real allotment. Together we created a place that was a timeless place, an escape from the modern world.

Thank you, for all your time and hard work and also for sharing my enthusiasm for digging up the first new potatoes of the year.

Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Update, late jobs to do at the allotment.

a healthy potato plant in flower

home grown carrots.. grown from seed

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful