Last Friday I popped down to the allotment to see how things were bearing up after some very heavy rain.  The bad news was that we have got some serious sort of fungal infection on the tomatoes in the cloche.  Looking at our books it seems to be Botrytis (grey mould) so I cut out the infected areas and treated the plants with fungicide, but the infection was so widespread that there is not much, so the chances of a crop look pretty thin now.  If it is grey mould it has probably been a result of slightly careless cleaning out of the side stems.

More brightly harvesting continues with some carrots, a few courgettes and one of the winter squashes that looked really lovely.  I cut down the haulms of the Cara potatoes just to make sure that we don’t hit any late blight problems and dug the Vales Sovereigns (which look really good).