Summer meals at the allotment and a refreshing radish, cucumber and fennel salad

We’ve eaten quite a few dinners at the allotment over the past week, much like our anniversary meal they’ve been utterly blissful.

Before we left I made a quinoa salad with cucumber, radish and dill, which was then finished off at the allotment with grilled fennel – I’d seen the recipe here and it was delicious, very refreshing which is just what you need in this weather.

Mr Rigg grilled some sausages and chicken, and we ate simply but well.

We drank sparkling elderflower from enamel mugs…

And the dog snoozed in the boot of the car, silly thing…

After we ate we went for a wander around the allotment and I thought I’d share with you all what the other plots are looking like.  There is lots of aquilegia popping up, just like those that have self-seeded themselves around my garden…

Some people have THE neatest herb beds…

I’m also jealous of the greenhouses and mini polytunnels full of growing tomato plants…

The sunlight was so pretty as the sun began to go down, and I just love all the jolly chive flowers…

Lots of people are growing all kinds of trailing brambles and raspberries, but this flower I didn’t recognise – does anyone know what this is?  I wondered if it might be a cultivated blackberry as the leaves look similar?

Just look at that sky!

I’m rather fond of this plot, with it’s eclectic mixture of pots…

And I left this guy to last…what do you think?  He’s got to be up there with one of the best scarecrows, especially with that hair!

Have a lovely week everyone!

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