Between The Rain

In a brief interlude between deluges I managed to get a small amount of hoeing and photography in. Whether it's the rain or the slug, the carrots She Who Does Not Dig planted a few weeks show no sign of life. All there was in their rows was a small dock plant and various types of new grass. Hmmm. Whilst the rain seems to being carrots no favours, the weeds seem to be coping, they're as happy as ever. This isn't helped by both my neighbors largely abandoning their plots in the face of the 'summer' weather.



My plot is the strip of ever-so-slightly-fewer-weeds in the middle. Huge numbers of the plots are looking somewhat sorry for themselves, understandably the weather is proving rather dispiriting for many people. I need to sort out my paths, they're just growing faster than I trample them down by walking around, so I need to either cover them with something (more of the thousands of stones in my soil?) or else start to regularly cut it. Ugh.

There is positive life though, whilst many things are looking dubious the potatoes are just about to flower and now they've finally got going the sweetcorn is really going for it.

The best of the bunch though are the beans, they're covered in stunning red flowers. I hope you'll forgive me for including a couple of larger photos, they really are beautiful at the moment.