An unexpected bonus

If you look carefully at the photo, you will see a lot of white specks on the netting. These are weed seeds, and the netting has stopped them landing on my plot, hurrah!

A tatty harvest from my tatty plot

This is one root of Kestrel, my First Early potatoes. I've now dug all of my Second Earlies (Lady Christl), as they died off quickly and some had slug damage. The first earlies are only now dying off, and have had no slug damage. However, some have had scab, but as you can see from these, this is very minor.
I also planted out some more lettuce this week - which were promptly eaten by our slugs - and some cabbages for the winter. I've covered these with the mesh cloches that I used over the first cabbages that I planted out, and which are now large enough to look after themselves. And I've put some more slug pellets down!
Apart from that it's been the usual weeding - neverending - and harvesting:- beetroot, French beans, courgettes, onions etc.

Wind

Our allotment site is very exposed - we are after all right on the top of the North Downs, and adjacent to a large open field - so it struck me that a bit of wind protection would be useful. I cut up a few unwanted steel poles to 135cm lengths, and drove those into the corners of a couple of my mini-plots. My niece very kindly gave me a length of 1 metre wide mesh as a birthday present, so I've strung this between the posts using galvanised wire. There was a bit of a breeze up at the plot this morning, which was quite noticeable standing up in each area, but crouching down the difference was great - practically no wind, just a gentle zephyr. Hopefully this will help the more tender crops get a good start.