8/2/26 - Bean Update, Transplanting, Chitting and Sowing
Good afternoon and welcome to this weekends allotment diary update. It might not be long before I go back to doing smaller updates through the week to keep posts shorter as the amount of work I do increases. We're nearly at the point where it is possible to do a visit to the plot after work which is exciting. So, to kick off this update, we start with a bit of AI fun. I wanted a new profile picture for my Instagram account, so off to an AI provider, supplied a photo of myself and asked it to create a caricature of me harvesting veg on my allotment with my shed and polytunnel behind me. Have to say, not a bad effort! First job this weekend was to sow some carrots in the polytunnel carrot bed. Now, this maybe too early. The compost might not be warm enough, despite being kept undercover in the polytunnel, but I decided to give it a go. Last year, I devised a way of using a cell tray to get some good spacing between the carrots and it worked really...
