One August evening...

Beetroot!

Oscar dug for treasure while the setting sun made the sky beautiful...

And I picked endless caterpillars off the purple sprouting broccoli in an attempt to save it from total decimation.

Os couldn't resist pulling a parsnip - just to check - and it turned out to be a foot long!

Been harvesting and cooking and holidaying and working and not blogging... but the veg have been utterly wonderful this year, in spite of the late start.

This is how the patch was looking earlier in the month, but unfortunately I've been busy with work  and stuff so have not been blogging.

Since I've not blogged for so long. here's a load of self-explanatory photos, and I'll get over that allotment and do a proper report on what's really going on right now.

For the moment, here's what's been going on for the last 6 weeks...

Lovely carrot colours.  I planted some purple ones, but the yellow ones are mixed in with the traditional orange ones for some reason.

Seems like an awfully long time ago I harvested my French beans.  Not an enormous crop, but delicious and enough for a couple of meals.

Got cucumbers coming out of my ears!

A combination of club root and cabbage fly have been attacking my cabbage patch, along with the ubiquitous slugs,  but still had plenty of lovely specimens.

This is how the purple sprouting plants looked before the great caterpillar attack...

Right - not wasting any more time on this blog post when there is work to be done over the plot... will post soon about what the score is over there.