tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15194426.post-79905152709837499922007-01-07T21:44:00.000Z2008-12-10T10:08:54.538Z<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r7UNqtqL6Ek/RaFqnHBhnmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/wDvd6ZuX9z8/s1600-h/annexe+overview.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r7UNqtqL6Ek/RaFqnHBhnmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/wDvd6ZuX9z8/s400/annexe+overview.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5017408680000331362" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Well, what with the political thread about Bristol's allotment strategy and the fact that it stopped raining for long enough today for me to visit the plot, I now have a bit of a backlog of vaguely post-worthy material (if you set the bar of expectation low enough). However, the first thing that comes to mind is that the allotment annexe - the extra couple of beds the Uber Gaffer gave us during our short fall in the summer - has been under represented on this site.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">At the moment it looks like the photo above; full of spring cauliflowers and leeks, and in need of a going over with a hoe.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r7UNqtqL6Ek/RaFrC3BhnnI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xqAORrCB4FY/s1600-h/spring+cauliflower.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r7UNqtqL6Ek/RaFrC3BhnnI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xqAORrCB4FY/s320/spring+cauliflower.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5017409156741701234" border="0" /></a>We've never had much success growing cauliflowers. We got curds when we first tried about a decade ago on our first plot when we lived in Oxford. However, as soon as we cut the curds open they were full of cabbage white caterpillars.<br /><br />We've never managed to get cauliflowers to work in Bristol. This year's crop is the most promising yet - actually, that's true of all brassicas. As they're a spring variety, we're keeping our fingers crossed that if we do get curds they might even turn out to be bug free.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r7UNqtqL6Ek/RaFr3XBhnoI/AAAAAAAAAAc/2W0mqIxjWAI/s1600-h/leeks.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r7UNqtqL6Ek/RaFr3XBhnoI/AAAAAAAAAAc/2W0mqIxjWAI/s320/leeks.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5017410058684833410" border="0" /></a>We have a lot of leeks - I think we ended planting a couple of hundred - but they're all teeny-weeny. I suspect the very dry summer and the fact we were pretty late planting them out didn't help. Nonetheless, they taste good.<br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15194426-7990515270983749992?l=ourallotment.blogspot.com'/></div>AllotmentBosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308700625074489682noreply@blogger.com0