August update.

Visited the allotment for the first time in over two weeks and thought the growth of weeds may have reclaimed the plot while I was away. Lots of annual weeds had popped up but I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to pull out the weeds after the recent wet weather.

Picked some blackberries, plums, runner beans, yellow beans and dug up some potatoes. Found a courgette had grown into a marrow while I was away. The green manure crop that I sowed in July is growing well; I need to dig up the rest of the pink fir apple potatoes and sow the area to prevent weeds springing up there.

Planning what jobs need tackling in September:
move rhubarb, plant cherry tree, clear weeds and more brambles, and plant vegetable seeds that can go in then. I also need to draw a plan of what went where this year so that I do not replant the same things in that area next year.

I missed visiting the allotment, not going there has just confirmed how much comitment I feel to the place. It is one of the few places that gives me a sense of well being, it is the complete opposite to how it feels to stand in a que of people or even worse the way being in a crowd feels.