17/5/26 - Raspberries, Blueberries and Moles
Good evening and welcome to this weekends allotment diary update. This week has seen a slow down in happenings on the plot. A majority of things are in the ground and the things that haven't quite got there yet are still playing catch up. It's been a cooler week with a touch of air frost right at the start of the week but also with intermittent rain too which has meant that I haven't needed to go to the plot every day. Right at the start of the week, I had to do a quick visit to deploy some horticultural fleece over the tomatoes that had only been transplanted out the weekend before. Fingers crossed, that cold weather has now properly gone, and the fleece was removed on Friday, with a forecast for the next week seeing day time temperatures returning to the low to mid 20's and overnight temps sneaking occasionally into double digits. So, what of this weekend? Let's get stuck in. In recent posts, you will have seen that the raspberry canes bought ...