On Thursday Lynn was working from home, so I started the day with a swift bike ride.  Then I headed off to the allotment, with the main aim of building the gate, which I succeeded in doing.  The weather remains fairly damp, although not too cold, so things are still growing quickly – especially the cucurbits and another batch of courgettes and gherkins made their way home.

At last the sun has returned and first thing we set off for the allotment.  Lynn treated the newly built gate, and as I remembered to take a camera, we recorded it for prosperity as well as gathering documentary evidence of the way that the mini sweet corn have grown and the enormous productivity of the yellow courgette plant.

We harvested the first plant’s worth of “Rudolph” potatoes, which look great.  This plant produced 6lbs worth of potatoes and if they taste as good as they look, this level of productivity should make them a variety worth sticking with.

The gate

The yellow courgette plant

Harvesting the mini sweet corn

Lyn and her sweet peas

Inside the cloche