Get in there.... you spuddy beauties

A few days without rain so headed up the the allotment to get the spuds into the ground at last. This year I have Pink Fir Apples, Lady Balfour, Juliette, and Epicure which should give me spuds over a few months.

I also started weeding the plot which has been over run with grass while I've not been looking. The spinach bed, which is typical of the others which have gone wild looks like this:-




The onion bed which I have just worked over did look the same (but with onions in place of the spinach obviously) and now is much neater.




My garlic bed is also coming on a treat and got another helping of chicken poo pellets. Louise traded some of her rhubarb for some chicken poo on her garlic as well. I think I got the tastier end of that bargain :)

The leeks are not doing a cotton picking thing so I picked the biggest ones for my tea and will turn the rest into soup or equivalent.

The jersualem artichokes I forgot about don't seem to have done much at all so I'm leaving them in the ground to give a bigger crop next year. They should provide a decent windbreak at least for the rest of the plot.