Talking stock

 

 

Yesterday's blog listed the items that are now growing on our allotment and a few still awaiting being planted into the the right place. It was astonishing to me to discover that the list contained 54 items,m and even then I forgot the lettuce growing happily away in the main polytunnel.
The relentless heat (over 30 degrees today) means that Old Bean and I are working morning and evening and taking the middle of the day or plan and recuperate .  A hosepipe ban was brought in for us a few days ago (with hefty fines for those who don;t comply) so all irrigation is now done by watering can.  I suppose my plans to turn an area of our plot into a rice paddy will have to wait until next year.

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