Allotment progress

Things continue to go well on our plots, with only one or two irritating problems.
Blackfly have reared their heads on a few of the plants, notably on the Globe artichokes, have managed to keep them under control by rubbing them off and blasting them with a water jet.

The onions grown from sets are a bit disappointing, with some of the red ones bolting and a few with Onion rot.

Everything else is cropping really well.
Picked the first of our Mange tout today along with some Runners which are smothered in flower so we are expecting a bumper crop!

The last of the potatoes grown in the ground drying in the sun. These are Desiree.

Heres a few shots of the plot, showing a huge difference from last months photos.

While digging the plots earlier in the year, I dug up a rusty old hoe head, after looking for a while in various hardware/gardening shops, I managed to find a handle that fitted, I cleaned the head which was very rusty and I now have a functioning digging hoe.It just remains  to put an edge on it with a file.