Down on the lottie... Flowers are out in full bloom, bees are buzzing and I've seen a few stray butterflies making thier way around lazily in the early summer sunshine.
We bought some 'egg plants' at a car bootsale a few weeks back and put them in, I thought it was strange that when the ones on my patch opened they had no 'yolk' but were very pretty :)
Even stranger is the fact that the same batch of plants were also planted in Jessie's patch at the other side of the allotment, and they have some through this morning, all 'yolk' and no white! :S
My poppies are absolute stunners, I love them! Very pretty just wish they lasted a little longer.
Jessie's little patch is coming on well too, her red sunflowers are shooting up, she'll be over the moon at the weekend when she comes down, although how happy she'll be about the fact she has some weeding to do is another matter..... she's being trained up early, age 5 hehe.
I'm also getting a pretty nice little harvest when I go down too, a huge lettuce a day, easily, some of my peas are ready too, yummmm
All in all, I'm over the moon with how it is coming along, I've almost been on the allotment 2 months and I think it's looking fantastic, I can see the potential, and although the weather isn't being the kindest at the minute, my red onions are dry and bolting and the things I transplated from the other allotment, (into the only bed that was ready at the time) is an absolute nightmare to get into and weed, I still get the happy, 'this is the life' feeling everytime I open the little metal gate, onto the higgledy piggeldy path, pop my head around the shed and walk the length of the lottie taking in all the changes since my last visit.
And you know what..... It doesn't matter to me that at the age of 26 I'm the youngest on our plots, that I am a mother of two, have responsibilites, a house and a hardworking husband to look after....
This is the life :)
And you know what..... It doesn't matter to me that at the age of 26 I'm the youngest on our plots, that I am a mother of two, have responsibilites, a house and a hardworking husband to look after....
This is the life :)
I think you may have a sub species of the Poached Egg plant. Still beautiful though.
ReplyDeleteYou have done exceptionally well with your plot, it's looking so well tended. How on earth have you grown the sunflowers. Mine are still in the greenhouse as the slugs munched the ones planted out.
I do that walk too, inspecting the plot looking for changes!
Thanks, I'm over the moon with it, we put 5 sunflowers out and 3 have survived, they have shot up again with the rain and are taller than the fence now :)
ReplyDeleteI love the walk down the path looking for changes :)