OUTDOORS 38

This is my butternut pumpkin plant. It was in the poly tunnel until the day I took it out and found it too long to get to the plot. Liz thought the flowers were dropping either from excess heat or lack of fertilization and it needed to be outside - but the garden path has to be its outdoor home as its too traily to get to the allotment and pop in down there.

The potatoes needed to come outdoors too, Liz said - so I brought out 2 of the 3 bucket-grown potato plants, leaving just one inside the poly tunnel. This is also a good shot of my side border now its topped with mushroom compost.

One of my four cucumbers had already escaped the 40-50 degree heat into the patio greenhouse, two more having been popped into a raised bed at the allotment. Talking of which, I took a few photos down the plot early July. The first shows the fruit patch leading towards the behind-shed onion patch.

The other side shows cabbages, tomato/chilies/lemongrass, corn, raised bed of strawbs and nasturtiums, with the chickpeas over to the left in front the bean patch. The following photo is much the same, but seen from the other end.

And here we are - the cucumbers in situ in their new home, a closer shot of the chickpeas, Brussels sprouts, and bean patch, plenty of spuds - and some weeds....ho hum. I spend most of June-July watering as it didn't rain, and cropping fruits..... :)