Warm weather brings out the best... and the worst

As other allotmenteers have already pointed out, this weekend's weather has been a little warm. One of the benefits of being outside of a lovely sunny day is you get a good dose of vitamin D. Of course, it's not just you that gets a benefit. So do the unwanted things... like pigeons and weeds.

My poor kale as sadly passed beyond help thanks to the rats-with-wings. So it's time to pull it to may way for other goodies.

Elsewhere the lambs-quarters has started back with abundance. Time for large amounts of weed pulling. But on the plus side, clearing beds of weeds makes way for more tasty varieties of plants. The Sweetcorn has just gone in... but obviously it needs a little protection from aerial assault. So I extended the netting from the peas to fit. It's not ideal, but it should help.

Yeah, I know that the corn grows higher than the peas would and the frame should be the other way around. Well there is still time to switch it. I'm just trying to make room in the over crowded greenhouse. Talking of which, time to put the first lot of borlotti's out. These were planted in my coffee cup holders and they seem to have started pretty well. Got a few more on the go to fill out the bed and probably take over from the kale.

But one thing is for certain, if this hot weather keeps up, then the plants are going to be needing a lot more drinks of water. Like me. No scratch that, I'll have a nice cool cider please.