Thunder & Lightening

Went down to the allotment today to close up the poly tunnel and pick a few tomatoes. I'd just arrived when as a thunder storm started so Mango and I had to take cover in the tunnel for 20 mins. She was not a happy girl and just wanted to dig her own tunnel to escape
The black Russian truffle tomatoes are getting very big but none are ready to pick yet. I'm trying to reduce water but there's a lot less sun to sweeten them up now too. Fingers crossed.

Sweet peas

I've been trying to find a way to upload this photo from the camera roll on my iPad. Let's see if it works.

Busy Month of August

Well I've been so busy during August I've not blogged for a whole month, so there should be plenty of changes to show. But first the weather.

Weather in Warrington
Thursday 19° 9° 1.7 mm	Friday 20° 12° 1.7 mm	Saturday 18° 12° 5.2 mm	Sunday 16° 11° 1.7 mm

The past month has been warm, sometimes to extreme temperatures but it has also been very wet too. The fields are still very muddy and watering unnessary except for the polytunnel and backets.

The allotment has given it's best but I think a late blight took out my outdoor tomatoes, thank goodness (and David) for the polytunnel. Everything in there is doing well.

Outside has been good too. We finally pulled up all the broadbeans a couple of days ago, they have given us lbs of beans. The courgettes too are most prolific, I've also got an enormous pumpkin which is bigger that this picture suggests.

I've also got butternut squash and onion squash coming, and the ? seed seem to be a cross between marrow and pumpkin, see photo above with small B-Nut at top. The wet summer has paid dividends here.

One of the most outstanding crops has been the sweetpea. Slow to get going, but since June it's never stopped and I cut a bunch or 2 nearly every day.