First visit for over a week, owing to a debilitating tummy bug. The flash flooding in Edinburgh over the last 24 hrs meant I HAD to survey the scene.
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| Broad beans podding up. |
Fortunately no plots had been inundated. Phew!
The plot is meanwhile entering the harvesting phase.
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| First blueberry to ripen |
The salads definitely needing some thinning out
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| Salads bulking up. |
So I went home with some lettuce, leaf beet and fennel.
The early cabbages (Greyhound) have shown signs of splitting so it is harvest time for them.
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| Brassica Patch Time for me to get my digestion back in order! |
Hope you are feeling better. We are definitely entering a new phase of allotmenting. We have had rain but nothing heavy, although just a few miles away they had more rain than us.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue. Rain statistic for Edinburgh was "1/2 the normal July rainfall in one hour". Given the susceptibility of the site - water course/sewage overflow - everyone was quite cheery today to find only peripheral damage.
DeleteWe now have had heavy rain
DeleteGreat! Just as long as it is not too much of a good thing.
DeleteI have decided that of all things I could have, tummy bug is the worst. My sympathies. Leaf beet is? Swiss chard? We have had no rain, but, of course, we never do. But what was sp pleasing yesterday was that it was the noisiest July Fourth ever. It means that people are healing and coming together. Get well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jane. Yes I was completely stopped in my tracks - Now eating mindfully(!). Yes, Swiss chard. It made good eating - so buttery without any butter!
ReplyDeleteI saw the Edinburgh floods on tv and thought of you - glad you, and your plot, didn’t get washed away.
ReplyDeleteYour salad is amazing! Mine has been mostly eaten by slugs this year, very disappointing.
Hope you’re properly better now.