In the allotment, my courgette seed that I sowed directly in the soil is now producing little courgette. They are amazing, they seem to double in size between each visit. The purple sprouting brocolli is also growing. Heads have appeared and I can see that they will be ready for harvesting in a month or so. The potato plants were showing signs of blight, so we removed all the blighted leaves and sprayed them with a copper fungicide. This is perfect blight weather, warm, damp, and met eireann has a blight warning in effect. Copper fungicide only coats the plant so it must be sprayed every week. If spraying potatoes it is also necessary to spray tomato plants as they too suffer from blight. Along with the courgette harvest, we also have runner beans which have achieved their fifteen centimeter time to pick length. Or at least, there were three or four beans at that length the other day, so when I go back up to the allotment this evening, hopefully there will be more to harvest. After watching red chard for ages, I suddenly decided to cut some, it is a cut and come again plant, you have to cut it so it comes again and doesn’t bolt. I have noticed that ever since I started cutting the chard plants, they are doing much better. It seems to be getting stronger. It is delicious fried quickly with a little oil and butter and some nutmeg and pepper. The turnip crop still has much eating left in it. I have tired of turnip roasted in a milk, cream, nutmeg and a knob of butter mixture and so am turning instead to par boiled and then roasted turnip. Those are so delicious. The pea crop I am unsure about, the yield per plant doesn’t seem very large and once picked, that seems to be the end of them, unless new flowers will appear, which I am doubtful about. Do new flowers appear as the plant grows in height? I suppose I will find out this evening. The main worry now is blight. I sprayed on monday evening, but the weather is so damp, I wonder will they survive. The potatoes won’t be ready to harvest for another month, as the varities I planted (maincrop) need one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty days to mature. On the balcony at home, my tomato plants seem to be fruiting, I have little green tomatoes. They are much healthier than they were two weeks ago, I finally gave them some food and removed all the yellow nutrient deficient looking leaves and trusses. I know that they would prefer to be in deeper pots, a lesson for next year. Photos to follow.