Plot July 2005 page 2, The summer of the long harvest

The pumpkins developed yellow leaves early on, possibly due to the acidity of the soil heap they are growing in which is last years compost but I pushed drain pipes into it and filled them with chalk. I watered through the pipes until the plants were established.
The white rose bush I grow for Melissa has black spot which was never successfully treated, but the bush produced flowers for cutting. I am very happy with the dahlias, which recovered after being burnt by frost earlier in the year. The sweet peas produced a enough flowers in all colours for occasional cutting after early slug damage and repeated sowings.

You`re thinking of getting an alottment? You say you are, "Up for a bit of quiet digging on a Sunday afternoon?" You`ve had a look around the site, innocently treading onion rot disease from plot to plot and helping yourselves to a generous handful of someones freshly sprayed raspberries ripening in the afternoon sun? Now you think you will stroll down my neatly edged and clipped grass paths and your cheery greeting will be returned as if this allotment is a public footpath. I don`t think so, Get off my lawn you b*gg*r.

A Duel of Delight and Desperation