However, with a bit of watering, the allotment is looking good. The sickly runner beans are recovering, growing new leaves, and the biggest are now finding their support poles. The frosting they endured will put them back three or four weeks, but I think we'll get beans to eat - providing we don't get a gale in a few weeks time...!!
I've finally given up waiting for rain, and planted the broad beans. Here in this bed are also swede and (just visible) carrots.
I am trying some carrots in here too - it's the local way of avoiding carrot root fly, which only fly just above soil level, so shouldn't get into these tubs!
Also have a couple of tubs planted with dwarf runner beans. Just look at the wonderful wild growth around the tub! Well - it's wonderful here, but I spend a lot of time weeding all the 'wild' out of the veg beds!
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You seem to be having much better weather in Skye than in the Midlands and the south. Here it has been cold wet & windy for days, although the sun breaks through now and then. This afternoon & yesterday there have been short thunder storms, and this afternoon a two second break in the electric supply, which caused the computer to go down! Anyway your allotment seems to be coming on well and that's an interesting tip about the carrots. Thinking of food, time I got some tea!
Hi Pete/Turnip, Yes, NW Scotland has had the driest period in living memory - it must be 10 or 12 weeks since we had any rain at all. And there is still no rain mentioned for here in the short-term forecast.
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