The marrows will be monstrous

It's been a long while hasn't it? I've been quite poorly with a post-natal illness that I won't trouble you with the details here, but lets just say it's been all consuming and debilitating, and I'm still fighting off the remnants. I've been so ill I've not actually thought about the allotment at all. Until now. I'm thinking it's probably looking like a primeval jungle, all knarled roots and tendrils poking out from every crevice, with threatening trifid tendencies! ...and that's not even thinking about how huge a courgette can get in 3 weeks. Oh dear. Well maybe I will head over there on Sunday if my darling other half will oblige. So watch this space, and see what a neglected plot looks like in high summer after 3 weeks of rain. 

Sunday in the sun

I visited the plot yesterday for the first time since having Charlie. It was like being on holiday for two weeks and returning to find your garden looking like a jungle! All the paths had merged together with sprawling plants desperate to find a foothold. Tendrils of beans and squashes everywhere, and of course lots of thistles.

We put down a rug got out the humous and picked lots of carrots and peas for munching, along with some other goodies. Then we set to work harvesting as much as we could, peas, broad beans, chard, potatoes, blackcurrants, strawberries, onions, carrots, garlic, dill, parsley, fennel, swedes and kohl rabit. To say the haul was prolific would be an understatement. I was glowing with pride at the end of it all! To top it off I picked a couple of bunches of sweet peas and cornflowers for my mum.

We went home tired but happy. Charlie seemed to enjoy it there too.

My little bean - Charles Philip Douglas Warren

Here is something else pretty special I grew this year, his name is Charlie and he arrived on Monday 27th June at 6.50pm, weighing 8lbs 12ozs.

I can't wait to take him to the plot as I feel he's been with me on this journey too.