Great news. Our request for the front half of Plot 204 next to ours was approved by the Committee. We are very pleased, especially as the fruit trees spread out over both plots. For now we have mulched it all with black plastic and will probably plant a lot of potatoes there next spring. Three households share our allotment so the extra space will hopefully mean we can now become self-sufficient for potatoes and onions.
We haven't done much work on the plot since our last post because of holiday and wet windy weather, and have only been visiting occasionally to pick some vegetables. The weather was quite nice this weekend so we spent Sunday afternoon on the plot.
We hoed and weeded around the leeks and fed them with comfrey tea. They are quite well-established now.
There is plenty to eat. Today we harvested pink fir apple potatoes, some greens, a couple of beetroot and some apples. We finally harvested the last of the maincrop onions (Sturion). They are nice, but quite small.
The purple sprouting, Tuscan kale and Brussels sprouts seem to be growing quite well but we have lots of brassica problems. There is a terrible infestation of cabbage whitefly. The marigolds were completely ineffective. Maybe they were the wrong kind of marigold. Our cauliflowers were small and discoloured this year; not very appetising. The swedes should be growing much better than they are. Perhaps they are too close to the fruit trees? The snails are noticeable in the brassica cage so we spread some organic slug pellets and fed the plants with comfrey tea.
There was enough comfrey growing to make one last 'brew' before the Winter.
