Ouch

I'm hurting a bit. Spent a couple of hours on Saturday morning digging up my remaining potatoes, and my muscles are paying me back now. The yield from my Foremost seed potatoes wasn't as high as I had hoped, with most of the spuds being quite small. Some had succumbed to pests as well (but I guess I should have got them out of the ground earlier). I think the yield/size problem may have started when the plants were checked by a late frost back in May. Can't be helped, although if I plant them 'early' next year I'll bung some fleece over them or something.

They're still lovely tasting potatoes though, and I've got enough to last us quite a while.

Whilst on the plot (it was a very sunny morning) I cleared away the old courgette plants (and found one last 'marrow' hiding in the long grass at the edge of the bed!), cleared out the cold frame (old pepper plants and one last decent iceberg lettuce - in November!) and generally bumbled about pulling weeds and tidying around a bit. Everything was too wet to light a fire to burn some of the weeds etc. that are piling up - and Sunday's downpours won't have helped!

Unfortunately a few of my pumpkins had gone rotten in the shed, which is odd. Maybe they weren't in very good condition when I stored them, as the remaining ones seem OK for now. I took a pumpkin, squash, some spuds, a dozen onions and some garlic back to the flat, which should keep us going for a while!