A quick trip to the allotment that turned into a two hour visit

I didn’t mean to be long……..

But, I wanted to plant the 3 aubergine plants that I’d been propagating at home, particularly since they were starting to suffer from life in the small pots they were housed in.

So, off I went, and ended up spending about an hour pulling out more bindweed (if only all my vegetables grew as quickly). Then jumping when discovering a snake curled up in the bindweed as I was wrenching it out! A small brown thing with a black dot encircling a white dot on it’s head. Very pretty but made me wary for the rest of the weeding effort. Subsequent investigations have shown that what I saw was a baby grass snake (see picture).

 

Then, I planted the 3 aubergine plants and looked around to see if anything else needed urgent attention.

I ended up thinning out the sweetcorn sown in two parallel rows about 6-8 weeks ago. The thinnings were transplanted basically, and I’ve now got 24 plants in block formation. That should give me a pretty good crop. I’ve got some more plants growing at home that are ready to go up there too. They are all the same variety – peaches and cream. I’m keen to know how this variety will taste, not that you can go far wrong with sweetcorn anyway.

I also harvested some more radishes – delicious!

The gooseberries and currants are coming along nicely on the fruit plot too! I think I’ll be making lots of jam in a few weeks time! Cant wait!