Purple Graffiti Cauliflower

I thought I'd lost all of the first planting of cauliflowers but one of the Purple Graffiti cauliflowers has come through for me. It's not huge, but a reasonable size anyway. Most impressive. I showed it to a couple of people on the plot and explained, with a perfectly straight face, that it was a new Russian variety, developed in Chernobyl. No one actually fell for it.

Wood Chip Mountain

The council chaps have kindly been delivering loads of wood chip and we seem to have mountains of the stuff. Having said that, it won't last long as people use it to create mulches and paths around the site.

Horse Manure

The little pile on my plot is actually about 8 wheelbarrow loads gifted from the nice people on plot 28. Yes, the way to an allotment holders heart id to give him dung. The more dung the more he loves you!

Pumpkins Coming Along

My aim was to grow four pumpkins of reasonable size - not giant pumpkins this year - one for us and the rest for various kiddies. It looks like we will end up with about eight. You can make some of them out in this picture. They are just starting to turn orange.

National Vegetable Society Stand

John Carver, chairman of the local National Vegetable Society branch, with the NVS stand at Crewe & Nantwich.

As well as the display stand, he entered a few of his veggies that won first prize.

The stand included onions, carrots, parsnips, cauliflowers and cabbages all of which were superb, of course. Some of the produce had been show at Tatton where the NVS stand (bigger than this one) had won an RHS gold medal.

Larry discusses allotments in front of the Ford Lane site stand.

I've put a page up about the Ford Lane Allotments so you can read more there about them.

In the foreground you can see some prizewinning long carrots.