Introducing Kate's half of the allotment!!

Well this is Kate...she has the other half of the allotment and as requested here are some pics to see how she is getting on.

Kate has split her allotment into 4 sections planting the opposite way on to me as she read somewhere that you should plant so that the rows face east and west for the sun setting and rising. Kate has had some good harvest but also a few failures like me so I don't think turning the rows round has made much difference but it does make it easier to see where the divider is between the 2 halves. Above you can see Kate's peas..they did a lot better than mine but had quite a few bugs in them!!



This is Kate's strawberry patch which did very well this year and we shared the fruit as there was soooo much...it has too many weeds in for my liking though!!

This is part of the allotment which kate didn't get much planted on so it is slowly turning into a weed pile...whoops!!

Kate was lucky enough to get a good crop of corn going (I'm so jealous!!) and you can see it in the background of the above photo..and a few more weeds!!

This is a row or two of cabbages...I think...and again quite a few weeds. Kate isn't quite as dedicated as me at keeping the weeds down...I like to try and get at least an hours worth of weeding in a week...but everyone has different ideas so there is no real right or wrong about it...I just prefer to keep things tidy!!