An early July evening

It's early July and for a couple of weeks we have been eating food that we have grown on our allotment. The 'we' I refer to here is me and my wife, Alison.


We have eaten most of green salad which we are using as cut and come again leaves. I am not very sure that all of the lettuce we are eating is properly suitable for that purpose but that is what we have done with it and it seems to be lasting quite well. If it doesn't bolt we'll be eating it for a while yet. I have developed a liking for a variety called Salad Bowl and have sown quite a bit more or it for later in the year. I have some cos type coming along as well.


We brought quite  back from the plot this evening. We went down to check on our potatoes. I was worried about blight. We have had some trouble with black leg rot already this year but I had seen a neighbour's row of potatoes flattened by something that looks very like blight and wanted to check it out. We cut off quite a bit of foliage but there were black spots everywhere I looked so we gave up and dug some for the table instead.

This was our haul for the evening. Not too bad and the potato tubers were unaffected by blight. They are a variety called Foremost by the way.