Highs and Lows

Last Sunday, when we sat down to our family lunch to celebrate my birthday, the vegetables on the table had been grown by ourselves including the rasberries for our pudding. This was the dream that we had had when we first started the allotment, that one day we would be able to do just that and it hasn't taken that long for it to come true.

When we went down the lottie earlier this week, there were some highs and some lows. First the highs. The autumn rasberries are really coming on now with lots of big juicy red fruits. We are picking a punnet a day, too many to eat, so we are open freezing them.We also picked a few russetts from our apple tree, though they are not at their best yet.The corn is coming on and is as tall as an elephants eye, to quote a line from Oklahoma.

We also found that caterpillars love kohl rabi leaves so we won't be growing those again next year.

The worst low was that some of the tomatoes planted in the ground had started to blacken, both stems and fruits, so we decided to take them up as, if it is the blight, we don't want it to spread. That was a real blow as we were hoping for a bumper crop, however, we still have quite a lot left which have fruit on them . Fingers crossed.