We've been busy on the allotment and even enlisted the help of two of our friends, Hitesh and Angela, in the effort to get our veg in the ground before it gets too late in the year. Thanks to their help, we now have 60 potatoes in the ground ready to grow. (And let me tell you -- it was MUCH harder work than we thought because the trenches we dug were FULL of blackberry roots -- some about as thick as your wrist!)
We also planted the back part of the plot with various vegetables. We have sugar snap peas, bok-choy, spring cabbage, zucchini/courgette, pumpkin, butternut squash, rhubarb, beets/beetroot, and even some melon. Just today Paul's sister brought us some more plants so we'll have tomato, lettuce, cauliflower, and brusselsprouts.
We still have the middle 1/2 of the plot covered in blackberry stalks and dead grass so we'll keep working at that little by little each week to get it ready for winter planting. That's if the blackberry regrowth and bindweed don't keep us too busy on the other parts!
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