Don’t worry I don’t have a rash or anything. I’m working through each bed on my allotment clearing the rubbish and weeding, and generally getting them ready for winter. Today I finished sorting all the finished Tomato plants in the greenhouse and now it’s all clean and tidy. As I moved each tray I had to be very careful as there were some rather large spiders about. I’m glad I had on my wellingtons. I didn’t kill any of the spiders, but just let them pottle off and find another home for themselves. Once the greenhouse was all sorted then I continued with the bed in which the Runner and French beans grew this year. They both did very well this year, but all the plants have now finished and I’ve now tidied them away. Remember to leave in the roots because the will release lots of goodness into the soil for the plants next year. Also in that bed I have some “Lancer” Sprouting Broccoli growing. The plants are growing amazingly well and are about 3 foot tall. There are no signs yet of the sprouts growing. But I should start harvesting them from November onwards. I’ll keep you updated on their progress. Then finally before I left I started to clear one of the Rhubarb patches. I removed any rotten leaves. Yes I know you can leave them to rot down, but let them rot away in the compost heap rather than round the base of the Rhubarb crown instead. This is just incase they are diseased, then you don’t loose the plant. So after about 3 hours I came home. A great time on the allotment today. I can’t get down tomorrow morning as I’m working, but I may be able to sneak a couple of hours in the afternoon. Still it’s all weather dependant.

Lancer Mixed Sprouting Broccoli. I’ve got to wait until November to harvest the first of it.