Early summer on the plot

Everything doing well...
good set of photos and captions..
get ready for the mid-week rain :o)

everything looks great Balcony, lots of lovely fruit to use and beets look yummy to,its been so hot today here but i love it, no pains when the sun shines.
glad your reaping the rewards of your labour ;o))

Balcony,your allotment looks absolutly smashing with all that veg and barry's.You and your friend Gerry, could start selling veg fruit at the country fairs

Well done you're having some nice crops there. It's good to see things are coming along so well :o)

Looking good Balcony. I'm looking forward to our fruit cage project starting so I can have blackcurrants, raspberries and gooseberries - no point is trying to grow those here without protection as it'll be the biggest bird cafe for miles around! Nice to hear you've been basking in temps of 30 degrees. (I won't tell you of our week of 40 degrees then ;o)) The sunflower plot looks good - plenty of snacks for you and the birds?

all coming along nicely there Balcony....

Thank you all for your kind comments! :-))

@Nariz: We don't need to protect our fruit on the plot because the birds seem to leave most of it alone! :-)) There are only a few damaged Gooseberries or Black Currants. There are plenty of birds on the allotment field & it is quite usual to have Blackbirds or Robins following you around. The pigeons are a nuisance if you grow "greens" or peas but otherwise they aren't a pest as far as I can see.

I harvested our first Cucumbers today! 3 from the GH & 2 from the plot. There are lots more in the GH!

I dug up our first early potatoes on Friday & Saturday. we got 4 plastic bags full of spuds! In my next blog I'll put up some photos of them.

I need some of your well-behaved birds to teach my mob to leave my grapes alone! We don't have trouble with pigeons - not many in this area and the few that are here fly VERY quickly into cover before they become lunch for something bigger! Blackbirds are the main concern - they seem to think that everything fruity is grown for their benefit alone. We've had many a laugh watching a blackbird scaring off every bird who dares visit the cherry tree down the lane! Don't they realise it's HIS personal tree???!!!

Your Blackbird made me laugh, Nariz! :-D)

Talking about Blackbirds, one came down to the row of Gooseberry bushes behind our shed while I was only a couple of feet away &, after looking around in every possible direction starting helping himself to a Gooseberry while I stood still watching him tuck in! :-))

Of course he did - they're HIS gooseberries! Didn't you realise that? ;o)

Oh Balcony, doesn't everything just look so healthy on the plot? If ours looks half as good as yours next year,we shall be happy! We've 'inherited' two different types of Gooseberry bushes, one is a red dessert, the other the usual green variety, if that makes sense! We had a fruit crumble using them yesterday, quite tart even with sugar added. Also have made enough Blackcurrant jam to fill eight jars, so we're happy with that. Lovely to see all your produce on the allotment. : o ))

Thanks Shirley! I just looked at the photos above again & can hardly recognise the allotment now! Everything has really taken off &, almost, followed Atlantis into space!

The next blog I write will show a very, very different allotment to this one! LOL! Everything is now coming to a head & harvest is practically upon us!