All the spuds are in

No blogs last week because I had to up early Monday to go to head office in London. It is a 5am start so early to bed on Sunday. Last Sunday turned out nice which allowed me to get the remainder of the main crop spuds "Cara" harvested. It has been quite dry and I was worried that the soil would be solid making harvesting heavy work. I should not have worried. The soil was quite friable. H left me to it this time. There was a little blight but not as bad as previous years. The Cara's were a good size. Ideal for baking which is H's favorite way of cooking spuds. Miss L tucks away a baked potato quick smart too. I have them all in the shed in sacks but now I am faced with storing the produce in such a way that we can get at everything easily.

I still have a lot of produce at the lottie, mainly brasicass and roots. Luckily they can live out until I need them. Now most the tall plants have been cut back or harvested I can now see the grape vines. I put them in a foot tall sticks with a few leaves and now all the white grapes are six feet tall and showing no signs of slowing down just yet.

I have not done any pickling this year so I need to get busy with that soon. The garage is full of saved jars which are starting to get in the way. I have been distracted with work but also with the new extension to the allotments. We had a chat with the site foreman about what he could do for us. We agreed a plan and that was last Friday. When I went up to check on the lottie on Friday lottie because I had been away most I found the contractors had made a start on preparing the site. They did up to the old plantation hedge line. I have spent a few hours this morning undoing the staples that held the wire to the posts. I managed to save 70 yards of strand wire but as yet I have not been able to salvage the wire rabbit fencing. I hope the contractors will be able to complete the other section soon. Steve and I can then set out the areas for the hard standings and paths. Where we get the stone fill and top soil from is a mystery at the moment but things have a way of turning up.