On 20/07/2012 07:46, Peter James wrote:
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.

This has been a wonderful year for soft fruit. My strawberries have
cropped wonderfully well, and provided many pickings of fruit. My
loganberries and black currants have also done very well. I am now
waiting on the autumn fruiting raspberries, and they look very good at
the present.

My vegetables have done less well, and yet the potatoes are not bad,
browad beans so so, summer cabbage OK and salad crops very poor.

So all in all, not too bad, and the allotment is worth the rent, for
this year anyway.

I'm in Cornwall, so we've had our share of wet weather this year.

Peter

You think you have problems?
I've managed to get about 5% of my dahlia stock planted so far, that
leaves almost 3000 to get planted, If I have any problems with them now
that will be me finished as a dahlia grower.
They should have been planted out in June, as it is I cant get a machine
on the ground to prepare for planting, where I have prepared the soil is
now so firm you'd think it hadn't been rotovated.
" days ago water was running down the field and not a hope in hell of
getting anywhere near the ground.
If it stays frost free till late Nov then just possibly I will have
stock tubers for next year.
David @ the sodden end of Swansea Bay.