Morning plotmenters!
Frouby that's a lovely photo of your DS. How nice that he enjoys the allotment. My two seem to lack the attention span, after 10 minutes they're fed up.
Still very few signs of potatoes up at my plot. I planted 8 first earlies and only 4 are through. Oh well i will keep watering and keep fingers crossed.
I planted climbing French bean seeds direct into the soil at the weekend as I've had no luck with germinating at home. Only one made it - a Blue Lake - and I've now added Cobra. Also a few bush beans just to use up old seeds. Sweet peas down here & there to fill in the gaps on the cane supports.
My 4 extra sweetcorn have germinated at home and also my 2 outdoor cucumbers "Lemon Crystal" - i have no experience of growing cucumbers before so I'm going to squeeze them onto a corner of the manure pile with a bit of trellis for support.
I raided the B&Q dead plant corner for some hanging basket plants last week and got quite a few French marigolds etc, too many for the basket so the surplus will be heading to the allotment tomorrow to go in my front border. There were loads of sad-looking veg seedlings reduced too but many of them looked sickly or were rotting at the bases.
Tomorrow I'm also going to put some straw around my strawberries and will make an attempt to net them, i have builder's piping & a huge roll of netting so it should be fairly simple to put together i hope.