I said I would post photo's of the allotment and here are the ones I took today. It was raining here most of the day so when we got a dry half hour we went up to take some rubbish to the dump and I took these. Everything has grown so tall, that's good I know but it does look rather full.
And now for the whinge. I am surrounded on three sides, left, right and behind my plot with uncultivated plots all of them have weeds with seed heads just waiting to pop all over my plot. I am so fed up with it! i phoned the council 3 weeks ago about the problem and nothing has happened. So I phoned again today, and have been promised that in the next 3 days they will come and strim all three plots. The one on the left is supposedly tenanted (not cultivated, so throw them off I say !!) the one behind has been given up ! so why hasn't it been given to someone on the 148 strong waiting list ???? and the one to the right apparently has been just taken, so hopefully it will be someone who will get on with cultivating it, although rumour has it that person is just going to keep chicken's. as long as the weeds are gone I don't care what they keep.
The photo below is what I have to look at all around me. WHINGE over, what are your views on the red tape on allotments and waiting lists in your area ??
I'm glad I got that off my chest, and I hope you like the pictorial view of my 'allotment heaven' (with weeds !!)
LOOK AT THE WEEDS I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH !!!
Views around the greenhouse
Tasty Yellow courgettes 
Round Italian courgettes, wonderful roasted with garlic and herbs.
The first chillies
Aubergine in flower at last!
The first cucumber, it's still very small.
The sweetcorn is so tall now.
Cabbages, 'wheelers imperial'
Squashes and pumpkins in the middle, onions left, raspberries right
view looking down from the shed, everything has grown so big.
The sunflower hedge., look at those high weeds on the empty plot at the back ! oh sorry, I said whinge over didn't I ?
close up of the sunflower, they are mixed shades of rust,bronze and dark reds.
Runner beans, can you see the high weeds on the empty plot behind mine? SORRY !
Can you see the weeds on the plot next to me(left) ? supposed to be tenanted but not cultivated oh no! here I go again !!
Flower bed behind the peas and broad beans.
