Vinny's Allotment Plot

I grow garlic and leeks. Elephant garlic is supposed to look like one but be related to the other. How do people use it?

Use the cloves as you would use ordinary garlic but Elephant's tend to be bigger and milder.

A happy two hours hand weeding today, mainly groundsel before it flowers and gives me another seven years of weeding!

Came away at the first sign of a back twinge as I have boxing this evening and need to be on my toes for that!

Brought some broadies back for ron. Had an excellent crop of these but for everything else it's been a dire year............! Oh tell a le, one of my gooseberry bushes have performed well and the elephant garlic aint too bad.

Poor germination and heavy predation is a bummer!

A trip back to the allotment before I get a letter!

Weeds were three feet high and courgetes were full blown marrows!

Spent a couple of hours hand weeding (my back can testify to this)  and hoe-ing! I managed to get the plot looking semi-respectable and hopefully avoided a letter.
Onions are ready for harvesting and I harvested a few. I stole a couple of plumbs which were hanging over my plot from next doors tree, and very tasty they were too!
I have two grape vines trained into the greenhouse with one small bunch on each.

The spring cabbage are hearting up even though it is now autumn.

I will try and get back on a decent weather day next week and tickle over some beds , adding manure as I go,ready for the winter planting

Back at plot yesterday for more weeding. Mainly using hoe to weed as ground was damp and weeds were shallow rooted. Stooping to hoe does affect your back but not as much as hand weeding.
To try and get away from the 'Brown desert' look I will be trying to grow stuff over the winter,even if it is just green manure. Dismayed at how many plotholders just cover the beds with black plastic or weed membrane for the winter and return to plot at Easter. The Council seem to look upon it with favour and class these guys/gals as good plotholders? Ah, well,each to there own I suppose.?

As well as hoeing I tickled a few beds over ready for planting. I have four main crops I grow through the winter and usually start some of them off under glass.to this end I covered some of the beds with glass yesterday.

Jaanese type onion sets, spring cabbage, broad beans and garlic/elephant garlic are what I usually grow but if anyone has any other ideas for sowing I would be interested?
I still have leeks and onions growing as well as last years sring cabbage which have turned into autumn cabbage!