Joy! at putting together this bench - and two large picnic tables - at the allotments. These were done between the showers, which included hail, and they must now be screwed down to concrete blocks or they will 'walk'. They, and several others, will be part of the 'Community Garden' in front of our containers, available for anyone - not just allotmenteers - to come and enjoy the view.
I planted out a few sweetcorn yesterday, and they seem OK despite the hail. I have also planted out runner beans, French beans and courgettes. All of these are quite tender, but I am hoping that we will have no more cold weather before summer really starts. There are more courgettes and sweetcorn to go in, and I have also been planting cabbages (both green and red) and onions, which are quite hardy. We had a touch of frost at the end of last month (we were away on holiday, so could not do anything about it) which caught the tops of some of the potatoes, but they have all recovered well. In fact everything (weeds especially) is growing madly, a reflection of the warm, wet weather and longer days. Unless I go to the allotments every day - and needless to say I am too busy to do that - it all rather gets away. So I am now NOT nearly up to date! There is a lot of weeding to be done, plus replacing the Swiss chard that have now bolted, plus much more planting of seeds and plants.
