Spent a good couple of hours at the allotment on Sunday; weeded, tidied, watered. The gherkin factory is now in full swing and it’s becoming an effort to get enough jars for pickling.
One of the cucumber plants has been producing massive cucumbers which unfortunately tasted really bitter. It was at some point after that I remembered it was a lunchbox cucumber, meaning you were supposed to pick them when they were tiny. So, we picked some small ones and they still tasted bitter so I gave the plant three more days to produce something edible.
It didn’t and it was culled to make more room for the gherkin plant and the Chinese cucumber. While extricating its many tentacles from the polytunnel frame, I noticed that at some point I had beheaded the Chinese cucumber plant, oops. So we are down to just the gherkin plant, but that should see us through the summer.
We’ve had some good cabbages, my purple carrots and plenty of onions. Rob’s Leeks are coming along nicely and so are the French beans.
The space where the lunchbox lived.
Marigolds, good for washing the pots and for adding some colour.
Reach for the sky, beans!
