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Allotment? It’s vast. Do you have to give away or sell surplus produce?

Being more interested in flowers over fruit & veg gardening just now, that’s stunning. This week’s rain has been a welcome surprise for us gardeners. It bucketed down here for hours this morning.

Afternoon blossom.

B In this neck of the woods, we had huge droughts and searing temps for several summers in a row up to last year. Very common in this millennium … climate change. This summer has been the exception. Other than a very dry and cold April, since then every few weeks a few inches of rain has...

I don't like the heat and humidity eg that horrible July heatwave, especially oppressively hot nights, plus I'm wary of sun damage. If only every summer today could be just like today ..... dreaming.

Did any of you guys work on your allotment's today? My perfect weather today - low 70F's and mainly sunny, really nice in the garden.

I hardly mowed at all during the cold, drought-like April. But the same as you, now having to mow a couple of times a week.

I’m having to weed more than ever ... the price of this rain and heat.

Bloody hell, that’s amazing. All the rain we had in May and now the heat/sun, this is paradise for plants. It’s hard to see due to the photos definition ... the tall purple plants, some kind of Flag Irises?

AmexRuislip you’ve been working hard there, on the rare dry days?! Should be a very lucrative crop.

I heard that he single handedly beat the Argies flying a Sea Harrier, before setting up a landscaping empire, but I tend to get confused on things these days.

Similar age, but I used to have a great memory, before I went doo-lally. Anyway, how are you Lamie?

My Dad took me by Inter-City, not a football special. I remember the day pretty well. 10,000 Brighton in that away end.

At least you were at St.James’s Park in May 79!

Did you manage to make the Amex for the Wigan match two years ago?

I didn’t realise you were into gardening. Looks like you have lovely loam there in HA4. We’re on thin chalky soil in Withdean, so I have to improve it by bringing in well rotted manure each spring. In between a family trip out today, I’ve watered some young trees in our 2 year old mixed...