Potatoes!

It's goodbye to plot 121 - I have now ended my "tenancy" there as I no longer have the need or the time to work this extra half plot!

One lot of Cara Potatoes going from 121 to 144 by trailer!

Desiree potatoes drying off in the greenhouse

Another tray of Cara

This is the tray that was in the trailer

So all in all a good potato harvest

Special Delivery!!

The Apple puddings were packed up to take to the Trading Hut & when I arrived, the boys were just having a cup of tea!

Derek enjoying his pudding - his dog Laddie also enjoyed some!!

Free Apples & I dug up some Desiree

Yes, right there in the Trading Hut was a big tub full of cooking apples and I was told to help myself, so I took about 2lb's and brought them home along with some Desiree potatoes that I dug up from 121 and a handful of Onions from the greenhouse that I haven't got around to stringing up yet.

I got Delia's recipe out from the recipe scrap book and made some Apple/Almond puddings, some of which I will take to the Trading Hut tomorrow for the boys to try out.

Before

After!!

They are now cooling in the kitchen and I can't wait to try one Mmmmmm

Progress!

 I am greeted by this lovely sunflower on my arrival at the allotment at the moment - it's so cheery!!

 Ok, so down to work - I had trouble getting this stake out, so I had to leave it until I could get some "man power" behind it.

 As you can see, there are several "extra" stakes along this side of the last raised bed, which I had forgotten about, but they were put in for a reason - to provide extra support to this side.

 So in the end I decided to leave it where it is (the side of the raised bed that is, and now I have this lovely area to one side of the fruit trees.

Here is the view from the other side - it to me ages to break up and rake the soil.  I also put in a good few handfuls of 6X - a chicken poo fertilizer thing which other allotmenteers swear by.

If you look carefully, just past Tatty the Scarecrow and focus on the middle of the picture, you will see a little pussy cat, helping itself to water from the bird bath

Closer....

And closer!  Naughty pussy cat.

I also managed to rake over the soil (and 6X it) to either side of the leeks

So I had a few good hours well spent at the allotment this morning

Thankfully no more blisters today....

The first thing that I had to do was to lift the strawberry plants from bed 2 and put them in what was the raised bed from plot 121.....

I found that a few split so I put them in separately in the hope that they will take, so this is the finished Strawberry bed, which I have covered in netting.

 Thankfully the rain did it's thing and I was able to fork over the old path area on both sides of raised bed 2.  It was still hard work but I thought it would be more beneficial to loosen up the areas that had only the other day been pathways!

As you can see, with little effort the ends started to come away, that's how bad it was getting.

I managed to get the sides and the lengths of wood away from the stakes and leaving the top end in place, I stored the wood neatly as they may come in useful. So here you see the frame work removed.   Wow that space is already looking huge and like fantastic growing space. 

 I must say, the soil is very very nice and will only need a little TLC this year.

You can see here, how badly rotten the stakes had become!!