When the sun broke through in mid-afternoon, I got down to the allotment.  I harvested the full row of Lady Christl’s and a few more courgettes and beetroot.  I weeded the sweet corn beds, which are coming on very well and then planted out the purple sprouting broccoli and after a couple of false starts got a netting framework over the plants.

The harvest led to the strange sight of a man on his front lawn, washing potatoes and drying them out on sheets of newspaper.  We had about 25lbs from the 16 plants that I harvested – not a bad haul given that the plants looked a bit sickly.