29/9/26 - Harvesting Continues and Planning Starts
Good evening. Time for the next allotment diary entry, and I have a little bit to catch up on. I really love this time of year on the allotment. The product of all the hard work from through the year pays dividends and visiting the plot at the moment rarely means leaving empty handed. I can't lie, the last 3 or 4 months have been tough. Not only because of the weather, but ill health has played a big part in me not being able to tend to the plot as much as I want to. I still feel so far behind and I still think I could of had a much more positive outcome on many of the crops if I had been more on hand and ready to deal with issues before the got too bad. But enough of that, onto the good stuff. The last couple of weeks I have been able to manage to spend a little bit more time there, so things are starting to get done. During the last week, we have also been lucky enough to get a large delivery of a manure mix from a local farm which has m...