Rocket! Yummy First Earlies

Welcome back to Reads Allotment Retreat, our diary blog for our lottie venture! Friday this week we popped in to the plot to harvest the remainder of our First Earlies(v.Rocket) that we planted earlier in the year. Previously we had dug up about 3 pounds, and the hefty haul pictured left amounted to well over 15 pounds more. A very encouraging haul, especially as the ground we planted in was not as thoroughly prepared as we would have liked. Obviously we had some for tea friday night, together with some breaded Pollack. Yum!

This pic shows our second Marrow(v.Greenbush), which we have planted about 3' from the first one we put in, and when we popped up to the plot today, were encouraged to see a marrow forming on the plant. We know these are thirsty plants, and are hoping that the layers of grass cuttings we added to the planting hole will retain the moisture that is going to be needed for strong growth. We'll see i guess!
Elsewhere on todays brief visit, we were able to spend an hour digging over the bed that had contained the spuds. The ground is still fairly hard, but not so hard that we couldn't dig it. There's loads of stones to remove, and still some big clods of earth to break up. We'll get there, don't panic!

That's about it for today, but we hope you'll all pop back soon for more updates of our lottie exploits!

Take care all, and enjoy your gardens and plots,

TTFN.