Allotment - Mid August 2011

I spent a couple of hours at the Allotment this afternoon, digging up some potatoes and harvesting runner beans, courgettes, lettuces, a couple of onions.  Then I carried on tackling the new bit which hasn't been dug over yet, removing lots of stroil and feeling very virtuous.

There was a frog in the pond today but photos of it didn't come out clearly, so are some of the rest of the photos:

 Glorious nasturtiums amongst the onions

 Bumble Bee on the runner beans

 Beetroot, onions, marigolds, lettuces and windmill:

As you can see the beetroot looks rather sparse - that's because we've picked so many. I'm pleased to say that there are some tiny ones coming along for later.

 Spinach, tomatoes, cucubits, broad beans, peas, marigolds (above and below)

Successional Plantings

As you can see from these pictures, the lettuces and radishes are looking good enough to dig up and eat.  So it's time to plant some more of them to eat in a few weeks when these are finished.