The leeks are coming on a treat now and should be ready shortly.
The fennel is also doing well although the bulbs are taking their sweet old time swelling up. I've kept chopping the tops off to stop them going to seed which they seem overly keen on doing.
The tomatoes all went down with blight (a problem for a lot of people on the allotment this year) so I rescued all the ones I could today to turn into chutney. The bad ones along with the foliage filled a dustbin bag and have gone in the bin rather than the compost heap so they don't contaminate anything else.
The cabbages and cauliflowers are starting to form hearts at long last, although the caterpillars are munching into the outer leaves of the later.
Finally, the spinach bed appears to have something growing in it, but I'm not 100% sure which bits are the spinach and which are the weeds. I've removed anything that certainly isn't spinach, and will leave the rest to grow and see what is in a straight line.
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