After loosing my blog of about three years on another site, I have decided to continue on this one and hopefully I will not loose this one. 
It is a very late year this year.  Frosts on the 11th of May.  Not the worst I have had.  Once there was a frost on the 1st of June. It was some time in the 1960s when the weather was normal.  
So, the greenhouse is full of plants and I cannot get into it.  I think that I may loose the  peppers but everything else will be alright. 
I have dug the last of the green manure in on this years brassica bed  and limed the area.  This is all ready for the brassicas to go in now when they have grown a little  larger.  I am weeding the runner beans and the sweet peas.  The sweet peas seriously need tying up.  This will be done this week. 
The onions are still  doing well despite the onion  fly still being  around.  I  want to cover these  with envirofleece but I have not gone to get the blue water pipe to make the supports yet.  The sweet cicerly is enormous.  I am wondering if it is the mychorrhizal fungi  that I put under it.  Possible. 
Spuds are coming through.  With the frosts I think they might get a bit damaged, however this will not  be fatal and they will just throw up new leaves.   I have hoed them  all up quite high but I still think that I could hoe them  up even  more. 
Carrots, spinach, beetroot and parsnips are  showing now.   These need to be weeded but I will leave them  until   I have the other beds clear.  The strawberries are doing very well and I think that if the frost does not kill  off the flowers I will  have a good harvest this year.  The raspberries are a little thin because I transplanted them  this year,  however they are doing really well and I think that the mychorrhizal fungi have done  their work well  on  them.  
The row of early onward is  doing  well.   I will  put up the chicken  wire  to support them as  and when.   The winter cauliflowers  are coming  now but I  wanted to  leave them  until they got a little bigger.  I do  need the ground for more  peas though so they  will have to be harvested soon.  The good thing is that they tend to all come together so  I can harvest and freeze  them together and get a big area of ground to  use quite quickly.   Hopefully this is what will happen this year. 
The new rhubarb  is champagne.   I just wanted a named  variety because the rhubarb on the allotment is what  I  inherited 28 years  ago.   It is good rhubarb  but I  don't know its variety.
I have been harvesting quite a lot of rhubarb. 
French climbing bean posts have been up for a while but no beans growing up them until the frosts have gone. 
I have taken my first crop of comfrey leaves and put them into the digester.  I have moved the tub down to the comfrey bed - a sensible thing to do because there was no point in transporting barrow loads of comfrey leaves up to the top of the allotment for no  reason.  I have put the tub  on a pedistall so  that I can  put a watering  can  under the tap.   It is full  of comfrey now  but when  this rots down I  will  put some sweet cicerly  and nettle  in  too. 
The resultant 'tea' will be  used to  make  charcoal mix.  I am attempting to  replicate Terra preta soil.  
The three  bins  at the bottom of the allotment  are full with very well  rotted compost and I will be planting these with cucumber,  squash and  pumpkin.  I was going to put the courgettes on there  as well but they will survive anywhere so I  will put them  anywthere - except where I had them  last year.  Far  too cold to put them out at  the moment though.
The greenhouse is cocker at the moment.  I cannot fit anything else into it at all.  I am hoping to plant out the runner beans at the weekend if the weather changes. 
I think that I will loose the two gardener's delight tomatoes I put outside by the shed.  I am hoping that the shed,  being fairly black, would produce a micro climate  that will  enable them  to  survive.  Some hope though.  We will  see.
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