Vinny's Allotment Plot

I meant to have a good session at allotment today but gale force winds hampered progress (my hat kept blowing off!)  What brought proceedings to an end was when it started to rain horizontally and I said " Enough is enough"

I did manage to get quite a bit done though.  I started off by hoeing the bed I had pre-prepared for brassicas to clear the newly germinated weeds, then raked them off!
I have a seedbed filled with six types of brassica seedlings covred with enviromesh. I transplanted three lots of five brassicas into the bed I had raked level. I know one lot were winter cabbage because of there foliage colour but not sure what the other two lots were as the labels had blown away! One lot I suspect were calabrese as the leaves were oval shaped, but they could just as well be caulifower?

Once I had planted and watered them in, I put a cane in beside each and dropped over a cone shaped plastic cover to to hopefully keep pigeons off them and give them a chance to root! It was so windy I had to bank up soil around the edge of these cones to stop then flapping in the wind? I don't know how successful this will be and won't know until my next visit?

I then hoed weeds in leek and scorzonora bed. The leeks are pitiful but at least the strange shaped scorzonora seeds seem to have germiated in the main?

After that it was the back breaking task of hand weeding the onion beds!  I also lifted a pitiful crop of garlic from a bed and set them out to dry. Ths bed will be the recipient of another batch of unknown brassicas!

After munching on a few strawberries and a couple of goosegogs and redcurrants I finally gave up the ghost with the weather and headed for home. I took a piccie before I left and hoefully it will upload?