I haven't forgotten...

OK - it's been a while since I posted here, but I've been foraging, cooking and eating without cease, and taking some pictures to enliven things. I promise to post some of them later this week. We'v been on the allotment a fair bit now that the soil is soft enough to dig. Today I planted a section with shrubs and perennials to attract beneficial insects - bees and butterflies. This planting includes honesty, Flat Sea Holly, Cornflower, Red Campion, Red Clove, Viburnum, Cistus and Hebe. It seems a bit wasteful to give up lovely veg beds for creepy-crawlies but it's a good principle to follow. I also planted a row of spinach (Medania), and a row of garlic (unknown name, but white). We may give up on cabbages - they just don't do very well, despite elaborate netting against cabbage-white butterflies. And it's always depressing when harvesting the onions to find so many are blighted with white rot. Still we are planning beans, sweet corn, tomatoes, potatoes, strawberries, lots of soft fruit, peas, salads and artichokes. Yum yum.