12th July 2022 - Summer Progresses, The Garden Progresses
A quick look around the plot as summer progresses. It is amazing how seemingly slowly the plants grow and yet when you look back at the photos they are galloping along really.
Here in the 1st picture the lawn is beginning to mature although there are some signs of wear as we walk on this quite often. The tomatoes are doing well, leaves are curling, we hope that is just because of the hot summer sun.
Black cherry tomatoes in this second picture along with the two most established courgettes, almost ready to produce their first fruit.
Things are progressing well down on the sweetcorn plot. Still a long way to go for everything down there, but the soil is very good… plenty of thistles, just as we were told, but early extraction is keeping things under control. Desi has planted a spare Mallow here, which is doing well and filled the empty space (current) with some radish seeds, which have germinated into small plants already. These were sown directly into the soil.
The plot below ours is still unallocated and a bit of a wilderness. We appear to have a lot of this kind of thing around our allotment.
The spare tomato plants and peppers seem to be doing more than just surviving in the new plot. The soil is a bit low, but that is because we stole it for the potatoes… it will be returned when we have dug them all up.
Just across the path, lettuce and peas are ready to pick and eat. The whole “Haven” has finally come alive. A bit further up, the compost heaps are being disguised nicely by the sweet peas, and check out the Jerusalem Artichokes growing ever taller.
Around the front, on the road, what a picture! The Horseradish is acting as an excellent bush hiding / shielding the fence from the road and now the sweet peas are reaching their maturity the scent down on the allotment is wonderful. Moving along a bit, it is a wonderful place to sit and have a cup of tea these days. Check out the Clematis now galloping up the trellis, this won’t flower this year, but maybe next year will provide a nice show.
On the terrace, “Haven” not just for us but for the bees too… Check out the Passiflora flowers! In the sun these flowers get absolutely covered by the bees. The flowers themselves have a very interesting scent, a little bit like the doTERRA Deep Blue blend. Look where the 3 dark purple strands on the flower meet, just below that you can see a green ball… this ball is the fruit! (it never did anything like this last year.) Maybe having just planted the shrub, last year was a little early for fruiting.
In the last picture everything is filling up and flowering nicely now… plenty of winged action with the pollen.
