We missed the opportunity to visit the allotment on what was a beautiful Saturday, as some urgent shopping was required - so we went to Croydon instead (and I don't want to go there again!). However, on a more cheerful note we did manage a visit to our plot between rain showers on Sunday. It seems to have been raining on and off for weeks, and the whole plot is very wet - not exactly waterlogged, but too damp to to be doing much to apart from hammering in posts. There wasn't much to do apart from empty the compost from home, thus creating this splendid photo.It's extraordinary how picturesque waste can look - but it does rather look like a painting in my opinion. We also mended an old hoe (no photo), continued tidying the strawberries and did a bit of weeding. The rhubarb continues to grow, as do the onions. As you can see, they have three leaves now! With as little growing as we have at the moment, you have to get excited about everything.

The weather brought out lots of allotmenteers this weekend and we met two new neighbours - so lots of chatting and not quite as much gardening.

According to the the books, we should have been planting garlic - but we aren't quite sure where to get garlic from at this time of year. So we didn't plant any.