Hi guys! This week we've given little lottie a major overhaul - weeds are no more! With the hot and dry weather followed by some much needed rain, our overwintered alliums are now ready and have been harvested making way for crown prince squash, round zucchini, uchiki kuri, courgettes and pumpkins!
The onions are really good (looking forward to french onion soup!) but the star so far has been the garlic! Fried in a little butter and olive oil with some seasoning and fresh oregano from the garden and then added to a slice of rye bread with a sprinkling of cheese, it has been delicious!
Here is a snap of our curcubit plants - hoping for a big harvest this year! Not wishing the summer away but we can almost taste the roast squash soup! After some much needed TLC, the lottie is sparkling again with the promise of delicious food to come. This weekend we have been lucky enough to have eaten our own onions, shallots, garlic, beetroot, herbs, spinach, swiss chard, rhubarb and blackcurrants! The yellow veined chard has an amazing flavour and the fruit was gobbled up greedily by all in a fruit crumble - perfect with some vanilla ice-cream!
Potatoes and spring sown onions looking good after their tidy up this week. First signs of flowers on the potatoes! 
Aubergines, chard, peas and poppies! The rain has really perked up everything on the plot, although Anoushka is not amused and has just popped through the cat flap soaking wet!
"Serpette Guilloteau" peas in bloom. With little lottie looking pretty snazzy at the moment, thoughts are turning to soil improvement and planning for big lottie. A diagram, inspired by "The Self Sufficient Gardener" by John Seymour (70s classic "good life" book) has been drawn and ideas for new planting are taking shape! Stay tuned to Allotment Virgins for updates!
Keep it green, K&C
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