13 November

Jerusalem artichoke dying down

More digging!

And then we covered parts of the allotment with plastic sheet... ready for winter!

Jerusalem artichokes cleaned up...

23 October

More winter-mode. Covering the newspaper with soil. £20 doesn't go very far :(

Rhubarb and jerusalem artichoke still alive.

15 October

Break from digging... battle against weed in 2017 has begun!

Jerusalem artichokes

 Covering the ground with newspapers...

Our allotment backs to a graveyard. We've had someone asking for rhubarb. This day there were something special going on, looked like a celebration of death?

Pumpkin casserole with beans 

8 October

Beginning of the winter-mode!

And last harvest of butternut squashes and (baby) courgettes. We also found some more potatoes while digging the ground up. 

2 October 2016

No sweetcorn to us (we tried one when it wasn't totally ripe), rest went to badgers...

Cabbages 

Jerusalem artichoke still going strong

25 September harvest

Courgettes, rhubarb, beans and pumpkins!

14 September

Pumpkins - first ready to pick up!

Cabbages have also made an appearance!

And below is home-grown, home-made food. Sausage-pumpkin casserole and pumpkin pie.

26 August

Pumpkins doing well

Badgers are still enjoying our sweetcorn :(

20 August 2016

Below - Jerusalem artichoke

17th August

Stinking badgers!!!
Eating our sweetcorn.

14th August

We found potatoes!

10th August

Structure down! 

Good catch - this was about 500g french beans, maaaaany (6?) courgettes and some runner beans

Squash and pumpkins

5th August

Beans and sweetcorn

Squash and pumpkins doing well as well as courgettes

31st July 2016

Weeds have taken over!

24th July

After being away on holidays (while it was HOT back in Reading), everything had grown a lot!

First crop!

14th June cont.

14th July

3rd July