Weeding the easy way!

Went up to the allotment for the first time in over three weeks today-usual end of term madness and bad weather the excuses.  Everything has been growing well in our absence, especially the weeds!

The only thing we've planted out which has failed so far has been the lettuce; the rest of the crop: cabbage, suede, onions,  broccoli, leeks and potatoes are doing fine. Meanwhile, in the polytunnel, the sweet potatoes are looking very healthy, the courgettes have tripled in size and the beans are doing OK as well, although I'm not convinced they're as healthy as they could be.  I was tempted to pick some of our carrots as well, but I'll leave them a few weeks yet.

Sweet potatoes

Courgettes

After a couple of hours weeding between the potato plants, John hitched the rotivator to the back of the tractor and plowed the weeds on the rest of our patch in; saved us hours and hours of work and also means the weeds will not grow back nearly as fast.

                                  

Will go back up tomorrow to finish off covering over the newly plowed plot with sheeting; we are going to be away for the next few weeks so need to stop the weeds re-growing.

The ducks seem happy after all the recent rain anyway...