Total Allotment Time: 20 mins.
Principle Tasks: Planting 2 gourd 'Jack O Lantern'. Digging two 'Catriona' potatoes (plants) and harvesting two X (Cross) 'Tondo di Piazena' corgette marrows (They got a little bashed in my bag on the way home).

Total Allotment Time: 3 & 1/4 hrs.
Principle Tasks: Harvesting fruit and veg seen above (including raspberries from a neighbours plot - cheers Paul). Tickling over veg bed 02 to break up surface pan. General watering using cans - thanks Pauline and Mal for filling/carrying for me.

Total Allotment Time: 25 mins.
Principle Tasks: Watering plants in pots. Digging one potato 'Nadine'.

Total Allotment Time: 2hrs.
Principle Tasks: Watering. Weeding veg bed 2.

Notes From Home 18/06/09

Potted up 3 gourd 'Jack O Lantern' (Sowed 08/06/09) into 18cm plastic pots.

Total Allotment Time: 3 & 1/2 hrs.
Principle Tasks: Cutting back nettles and brambles from around compost bins. Digging the first of the 'Nadine' potatoes(?). Clipping grass from front of plot. Sun bathing.

Daisy Attraction

Notes From Home 08/06/09

Sowed 16 seeds of gourd 'Jack O Lantern' into eight 7cm plastic pots (2 per). A late sowing, but as the packet instructions says it's still possible (just) and as I've not much else to go in this year, I thought to give them a go.

An Old Friend

Total Allotment Time: 1hr.
Principle tasks: Weeding veg bed 01 & 02. Digging two more 'Maris Bard' potatoes.
Nb. Top photo taken a few days ago on a flying visit to the plot.

Fascinating Fasciation

Also known as 'cresting', its an unusual, if not rare, plant growth disorder. The first paragraph from the wikipedia page (click for direct link) reads as follows:

Fasciation is a condition of plant growth in which the apical meristem, normally concentrated around a single point, producing approximately cylindrical tissue, becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested, or elaborately contorted tissue. The phenomenon may occur in the stem, root, fruit, or flower head.

Here it's with the flower-stalks of the poached egg plants. I'm a little dismayed when reading on to discover that it can be caused by chemical damage (goodness knows what my predecessors may have put on the plot).

Total Allotment Time: 1hr.
Principle tasks: Digging two more 'Maris Bard' potatoes. Watering next in line. Watering newly-sown phacelia (and frowning over how over-thickly I had sown the previous patch).