Onions and Carrots…

The plot has the added advantage of some well-established fruit trees on the plot. The only disadvantage to this is that having been left for a year or so they now exceed the allowance for the allotment and will have to be pruned to below 6'. They're currently around 10', which is a nice shield but…

I've agreed to do this after this summer's crop and another condition, which was placed upon me when I took on the plot, is to share the crop this year with the other plot holders. As there's 4 or 5 apple trees, a couple of plum trees and a couple of pair trees there's no way I could get through that much fruit and, before you ask, I unfortunately don't have access to a chest freezer.

There's also a couple of red and blackcurrant bushes as well as a couple of scraggly gooseberry bushes. The bindweed is having a rampant time around the bushes and it's taking a lot of effort to tame.

I'm not currently netting or spraying anything. The birds have taken all the redcurrants but my wife beat them to the blackcurrants. The larger fruit doesn't look too bad at the moment - not ripe enough to attract the wasps - I'll just need to keep an eye on it as it ripens and swells.

The fruit offers an additional benefit. It shields my greenhouse from the road. There's not much stone throwing that goes on from that direction but better to be safe than sorry. I'm led to believe that the stone throwing mainly comes from the other side of the river.

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