It's all kicking off!

Well we're back from holiday and back on the allotment, and everything is sprouting up all over the place! And for those of you who think we're neglecting Nigel he's doing fine. In fact the potato sacks and pots are going great guns. Hopefully in a month or so from now we will be eating our first purple potatoes! I'm very excited!! As for Seedney the window sill he's doing very well growing my babies of hotness!

We harvested another basket of purple sprouting broccoli yesterday and turned it into psb and stilton soup - and bloody lovely it was as well. We also used mint from Nigel and rosemary from Doug to cook some new potatoes and roast lamb yesterday. It all just tastes that little bit better when you know where (some of) your food has come from.

Most of our time yesterday was spent planting new crops. We have extra French beans and a Borlotti bean, that Lyta planted at River Cottage, growing now as well as three types of tomatoes. I'm just hoping they survive the late frosts we're getting. Mary also planted some marigolds as apparently they help combat white fly. Anything that gets rid of parasites is good with me!

We picked up a horseradish plant as well the other day and I planted that out as well. I love horseradish sauce (there's a shocker) so I'm looking forward to that growing and then making a sauce to see if I can blow the top of my head off!

You may notice in some of the photos that we I have become rather obsessed with slug pellets. It's just that I'm paranoid that after all of our hard work we will start to loose stuff to the damned slugs and snails. We've just planted out another pumpkin plant as the three we had planted out previously were eaten down to the ground. You could barely tell that anything had even been there!

Anyway, that's it for now. Thanks for reading and hopefully more to follow next week.