Watching Flowers in the Rain?

Not on your nelly.  I reckon Roy Wood didn't have an allotment!  Wet soil is ideal for weeding the vegetable patch, and if you've only got the weekends to do it, you do it rain or shine!


Before

  Two hours later:


After


Spot the new shed making its first appearance.

And while I'm at it here's the Canadian Wonder patch all filled up.


Dwarf Beans



 And here's the pea patch. I was surprised to find some podding up in the earliest row, with a second row flowering. Not long to wait now!



Peas galore

 The strawberries in the foreground are everbearing variety, Albion.  I've been picking off the flowers to encourage leaf growth as I don't want strawberries off this patch until the other three patches are exhausted.

I hate weeding but it is the stuff of the allotment  right now.  If you don't get it done now you might as well hand back the keys, because in another week or two the seedlings would have been swamped and the only option to dig the weeds in. The plants will get a real boost from the lack of competition, and the rain, so they'll be able to keep ahead of the weeds from here on, with just a little help.  Generally I  find it easy to weed when I'm getting the reward of a crop at the same time, less so when its weed, weed, weed and no return.