THIS WEEKS SHOWS
SATURDAY
Levenshulme Allotments Society Show
Highfields Rd, Levenshulme
2.00pm to 5.00pm
SUNDAY
Ackroyd Ave.Society Show
Ackroyd Ave.Openshaw
2.00pm to 5.00pm

Brighton Grove Garden Society Show
Birchfields Community Centre
Brighton Grove, Platt Fields
2.00pm to 4.30pm

Ivygreen Allotment Society Show
Ivygreen Rd, Chorlton
2.00pm to 4.30pm

Please try to attend one of these shows and support the Society.

Well it is now Thursday and I have only just got round to thinking about this weeks article, the Bank Holiday weekend, two shows and a working Sunday meant that the time has flown. The work on the plot must go on even so, picking and watering despite the other distractions.
The weeds keep growing, I haven’t done much about them, the crops are always producing more to pick so I just carry on.

The asparagus has produced a good solid bed of fern type fronds and should be building up a good root system for next years crop. I have Brussels sprouts ready for picking, indeed I have already picked some, but I still think it’s early.

The climbing beans are going mad at the moment and need picking every day to stop them going coarse and stringy. The squash are running everywhere, even where I don’t want them. They say that the three sisters, corn,climbing beans and squash should be grown together to help each other. As you can see I only have two growing together, if the beans were there as well how do you pick them with walking all over the squash?

The potatoes are still coming out of the ground a good size and with very little blight damage, so I’m happy. Red cabbage always look good and stand well for a long time and should be more popular.

As it’s so late in the weekI will shorten the rest of the article and summarise the weeks work and crops.

WORK DONE THIS WEEK
Every day so far I have just managed to pick and water with a little weeding

CROPS PICKED THIS WEEK
Tomatoes
Potatoes
Sweetcorn
Calabrese
Climbing beans, french and runner
Dwarf beans
Courgettes
Chillies
Peppers
Radish
Lettuce
Apples