Hot and dry but productive!

Grandma has been here looking after the boys whilst we spent a weekend away in London town. Not only has she looked after them and done everything she has also been up the allotment too. I went up today, the first time in a while (the dreaded tonsilitus came back but has buggered off again thank goodness).

It has been a very hot and sticky day but various trips up in the last 10 days to water, by various people, has ensured that we are still getting a beautiful crop of veg to eat every other day. It is so lovely to go and pick your supper. Tonight I picked courgettes (including one which grew together as a weird fat double veg which Louis cackled with laughter at), onions, carrot and gourd/squash things (we still don't know what they are but we're eating them!) The pumpkins are really staking their claim and trailing all over the place. The brocolli is still coming, a random self-seeding tomato and spring onions. The corn is looking great (thanks Grandma for weeding so it stands tall from bare soil). We have lots of plums so my aim is to try and make some jam. I mainly tidied up the dead leaves and diseased cauliflowers and watered. A beautiful evening to do so. The boys aren't really into it at the moment but I can't blame them, today the heat was pretty fierce for them.

Squarecrow Jack STILL needs some love and the scarecrow competition is ever looming. A week to go, must sort it out! We are off camping this weekend so I must do my best to keep everything alive before we go, so as I can do some serious work when we get back.