Vinny's Allotment Plot

A few piccies from yesterdays foray to allotment.

The small green bed is where my French beans had been. After clearing and a quick hoe I planted Senshyu onion sets then put a coating of fresh grass cutting over them to act as a mulch and stop birds pulling them out. Another bed which was covered with cardboard and hay a few weeks ago was planted up with late turnips from modules.

I dug tatties out of another bed and covered it with cardboard and grass cuttings.

I also planted a couple of rows of Radar onion sets in the bed next to my Autumn Champion onion sets. I harvested a mahoosive mooli (part of dinner today along with a cabbage also for dinner) I also took beetroot and courgettes home with me.

My onions had been drying in trays outdoors so I decided as the weather would be changing for the worse soon to put the trays on the greenhouse staging.

As sustenance while I was at plot I had some sweetcorn eaten raw minutes after picking. For me this is the only way to eat sweetcorn and even though the weather hasn't been too clever I have had a decent crop which never finds its way home!

I was given a large barrel on a stand which my son didn't want at his new home. It was filled to the brim (fed from greenhouse gutter) after one nights torrential rain and must hold about 400 litres!