I went to the Hill in the pouring rain this morning & was very pleased to see Reg-next-plot who was able to advise me on how to present my onions, & to generally give my confidence a bit of a boost!
I got absolutely drenched as I replaced the netting with a 4m wide piece that I bought from the allotment shop – much better – & headed off home with onions to prepare, along with a couple of lettuce, & a bunch of carrots. Bit of a pity that I didn’t wash the carrot which revealed carrot fly damage BEFORE I entered them on the form – all I can say is that they are an improvement on last year's effort. A bit.
The afternoon has been spent with the ‘chosen few’ veg of each sort which I think make the grade, washing, trimming, tying up, & generally beautifying them ready for their big day tomorrow!Along with the fruit cake that I cooked a couple of weeks ago which has been ‘maturing’, I have a marble cake in the oven at this very moment. I have taken the precaution of making the cake at the last minute in order to avoid the trap I fell into last year of making another, & another, & another in an attempt to improve. Fat lot of good that did – I came third out of three, & have had marble cake clogging up the freezer for the last 12 months – & that’s after giving slices of it away to everyone from my accountant to the Avon lady.
I have the coleus potted up, a pot of beetroot pickle ready to join the party – & I’m just about to go back & pick some beans, pull 3 sticks of rhubarb & sort out half a dozen spring onions, then it’s radish tomorrow & that’s about your lot!
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