Our allotment is beginning to take shape – finally it looks like an allotment. That might sound funny, but it’s true. Until the other week it wasn’t much more than a strip of motorway verge. All overgrown and unloved.
Now it has a small lawn (currently suffering under the baking sun) for us to sit and eat lunch on, a herb garden (thyme in full flower), potatoes about to flower, sunflowers, courgette and pumkin plants, slender sweetcorn plants, and the beginnings of bark pathways. It is so exciting!
Eat the Earth 
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July 18, 2010 at 7:18 am
Katy Hanley
you’ve admired my vege patch and now I shall admire yours!
It looks enormous! Bet you’re enjoying the fruits of your labours at the moment – it’s such a good feeling to prepare a meal where most or all of the ingredients were home produced – and it’s also a good feeling that you’re not having to buy it all too.
What are the towering leaves at the back – rhubarb or chard?
Looks great – do you have to spend a lot of time on it?
July 18, 2010 at 3:19 pm
CharlieB
The patch you’re referring to is our allotment, which is huge! We have a much smaller set up in our back garden, where we mainly grow lettuces, carrots and courgettes – we save the allotment for bigger things like potatoes and onions, which don’t require as much care as we only get down there a couple of times a week at the most. Right at the back the ‘towering leaves’ is rhubarb, which came with the plot, and I have since discovered that I like it! Before I would never have gone near rhubarb, it’s funny how ‘growing your own’ changes your views and tastes.