We enjoyed some very heavy rain in the evening yesterday. I was exceedingly thankful to the big chief rainmaker for this as it will save me a very great deal of work, walking up and down the allotment with a couple of watering cans. I arrived quite a bit later than usual although it was well before 7am.
I was under the impression I was alone as I walked from one end of the plot to the other, when I suddenly sensed a presence, I wheeled around in time to see this handsome cock pheasant idly strolling into my plot. I instantly grabbed my camera from my pocket and took some brilliant photos of him from about five yards. I will never understand why men go out with guns to deliberately kill these beautiful creatures.
When I reached my asparagus beds, I was taken aback by the beauty of the asparagus ferns still full of raindrops from the showers we had enjoyed the night before. I had to take a few photos of this picturesque sight, there is nothing as simply beautiful as nature in the clean fresh rain-scented state after a shower.
I was smiling as I realised the welcome rain together with the recent warm weather has created the perfect growing conditions. I began to gather some of the crops to take home to Margaret this is always a time-consuming very satisfying job.
First I began to pick some large succulent raspberries, I have had a very heavy crop this year and we are busily freezing the produce for later use, probably in the middle of winter. I have also been well rewarded with a heavy crop of superb cultivated blackberries, I have never had such an excellent crop of these tasty beauties before.
First I began to pick some large succulent raspberries, I have had a very heavy crop this year and we are busily freezing the produce for later use, probably in the middle of winter. I have also been well rewarded with a heavy crop of superb cultivated blackberries, I have never had such an excellent crop of these tasty beauties before.
I dug up a single plant of my main crop potatoes and the resulting bounty of large Desiree potatoes bodes well for our winter stores. The second early variety have been quite small but we have been enjoying the taste of fresh new salad potatoes for about a month now.
The courgette plants are still producing like mad and I have given a very large number away this year particularly at the bowls club. We still have quite a store for ourselves to use in the near future.
I cannot pick the runner beans fast enough and the wigwams are full of unpicked beans, I am giving away a lot of beans to people at the bowls club. My rhubarb is having a second burst of growth and Margaret is using a lot in some very tasty deserts. Unusually some of the leeks are almost ready to eat. This really is a very good growing year.
The courgette plants are still producing like mad and I have given a very large number away this year particularly at the bowls club. We still have quite a store for ourselves to use in the near future.
I cannot pick the runner beans fast enough and the wigwams are full of unpicked beans, I am giving away a lot of beans to people at the bowls club. My rhubarb is having a second burst of growth and Margaret is using a lot in some very tasty deserts. Unusually some of the leeks are almost ready to eat. This really is a very good growing year.
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