Clairesallotment's Blog

I found this programme very interesting. What wonderfully clean and weed free plots they had to start with. I don’t think any of us have every achieved that, I know I haven’t. A lovely mixture of contestants, in age, and relationships, and a couple of very smartly dressed ladies. On their plots they seem to be growing a mixture of both vegetables, fruit and flowers. I do love sweet peas they have a wonderful fragrance. I do tend to keep my flowers for the garden at home, and only a few on the allotment to help attract the bees to aid pollination. The first challenge of growing some radish, and it was lovely to see the variety of radish that you could get, and no one seemed to grow the same. The purple radish were my favourite, I’ll have to find some of those. I was a little disappointed as they didn’t show you how to sow them in great detail, it was as though they assumed you’d know. But there are some people watching who may not have know, so for those of you, here’s my little video on How to sow Radish. The bouquets they made for the second challenge were all very beautiful, some larger that others, and the third and final challenge was very colourful. They had to make a curd and a jam. I love curds and jams and make loads of jam in the summer. Curds are a little trickier to make, but I have very successfully made some lemon curd. I think my favourite was the blueberry curd that was made, it was fluorescent purple, it would look fab on a bit of crumpet! It was sad to see the first pair go, but I’m wondering what happens to their plot that they’ve loved and cared for since March? Are they allowed to come back and harvest their goodies or is it left to go bad? Seems a huge waste if it is left. Does any one know?