24 August 2011

Pyromania: Burn Baby Burn!

Day off so did some burning of the raspberry canes.

Pyromania

Flame on

20 August 2011

WINNING!

Show tent

2nd Place for my beans

Not placed for my toms - boo!

Winner!! Courgette!

3rd place for my Banana Squash

Winner for my Beetroot!

No place for my sweet peas in a jam jar

Kate's cakes

Kate's sunflower lion

Some more photos of the plot:
Butternut squash going wild

Flowers

Sweetcorn

French beans

Runners

Squash patch

Clearing ground - where beetroot were

Toms

Hacking back the raspberries

A rather 1970s photo of my flowers
 Last but not least:
Best shield cup ever! the 'Ron Vickers Shield for Heaviest Dressed Onion'

It's show time!!!

Right - 5th year of allotmenteering and another annual show.

I am going to enter my vegetables (that sounds wrong) - here's the list of classes:


  1. 6 Dwarf Beans [Class 4]
  2. 6 Runner Beans [Class 6]
  3. 2 Beetroots with 3 inch tops [Class 9]
  4. 1 Cucumber [Class 14]
  5. 1 Marrow [Class 15]
  6. 2 Courgettes [Class 17]
  7. Longest Runner Bean [Class 23]
  8. Largest Vegetable exc. Marrow [Class 26]
  9. Unusual Vegetable [Class 26]
  10. Sweet Pea Flowers 6 to 12 Stems [Class 28]
  11. Disaster Class [Class 46]
Wish me luck!!

Will post photos, results and vegetable lists later....

7 August 2011

Harvesting time

Banana Squash

Cauliflower

Sunflower

Globe Artichoke

Sweet Peas

Bit overgrown

Plot shot

White Alyssum

Sweetcorn

Can't remember

More sweet peas

Butternut Squash

Cucumbers

Butternut squash

Butternut squash

Courgettes and squashes