Weeding and thinning.

A guest post this week from Madeleine - with Sarah helping with the digging They kindly took over the weekend duties as the rest of us were busy with other commitments. We're grateful to them for their hard work! 

Sarah and I had a good hour at the allotment last Saturday. Given it was a sunny Bank Holiday Saturday we were surprised that so few other people were there.

Margo and co had done great work the previous week - we were very impressed with the neat rows of new seed sowings. Sarah did some weeding of carrots and leeks (leeks doing really well; plants already looking very sturdy), and between us we managed to separate out some of the carrot seedlings, which had originally been planted in a rather clump like manner......! We made a new row alongside the runner beans, to accommodate the sorted out seedlings. Some of them look a bit weedy, but the rest are doing fine. And this rain will help!
I dug and cleared a new patch, not as large as last week's effort, but still.... 

There is room now for tomatoes, if anyone would like to provide some! It's still not too late, but we should get them in quickly if we want them to produce fruit before the autumn.

I also think we should plant some raspberries. They are so delicious to eat, and good value for hard work, as once they are in, they more or less look after themselves.  There is an autumn fruiting variety, I think, so not too late for this year.