"Spider" wrote in message
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On 19/07/2012 22:27, Christina Websell wrote:
with my allotment this year? I chose a bad year to start.
It is throwing down with rain as we speak, Again.
Might get a few courgettes as they love big rain. But some of them are
like
conjoined twins.




Oh, don't give up now, Tina! The weather should improve over the next few
days. We've all lost a lot of plants, decoratives as well as crops. I'm
personally trying to keep up with weeding and clearing ground for next
year. Planning ahead is the most hopeful thing we can do at the moment.
When the warmer weather comes, we may all discover that our losses are not
as bad as we think.

I am very discouraged, we've worked really hard. The hailstorm damaged a
lot of it. But you are right, onwards and upwards! Got ten pods of peas
and enough radishes for a big salad today. Pulled the first carrot and gave
it to my sister in law as she sowed them as a complete newbie and thought
they would be up and eatable within 3 weeks.
I bored her today with potato blight, smith periods, and how I get texts
about risks.
Since I signed up last week I have had three blight alerts
I destroyed the blighted foliage I had and up to now the rest of the
earlies seem Ok