My allotment, feb '15
Well here it is now:
My allotment, July '15
There's a willow playhouse covered in purple and yellow french beans at the back, parsnips, baby and regular sweetcorn, 2 types of peas, bush and broad beans, courgettes, nasturium, sunflowers, calendula, chamomile, coriander, parsley, stripy chioggia beetroot, borage and black cumin. The white thing in the middle is my 'carrot cage' made of old net curtains, trying to keep the carrot fly off my multicoloured carrots. The ramshackle arches behind it are some pvc pipe I found in a skip, with netting stretched over to protect a motley assortment of cabbage, brussels, purple sprouting broccoli and dinosaur kale (cavolo nero) from the caterpillars.
And that's just in the top half of the plot!
The rest of the plot is home to strawberries, red orange and yellow raspberries, plums, 'discovery' and 'james grieve' apple trees (not fruiting yet because I only put them in this year), a morello cherry sapling, blue honeysuckle berries, worcesterberries, blackcurrants, whitecurrants, blackberries, japanese wineberries, cucumbers, 4 types of tomato, 3 types of squash, 5 types of potato including purple fleshed ones, rainbow chard, spring onions, elephant garlic, leeks, lettuce, mixed oriental salad leaves, rocket and radish. Oh, and some chervil too.
Try reading that list without taking a breath!
More photos to follow soon, including a scintillating (tittilating even!) glimpse at the no-dig experiment I'm running on the bottom half of the plot.
