Tomato Harvest & Trim and Excavation

This afternoon on the plot as there is a 4C overnight temperature due on Thursday morning and a possibility of a hard frost event with rain Due Wednesday & Thursday so no allotment visits. I started off by harvest the ripening tomatoes, some trusses of tomatoes with a mixture of ripe and green tomatoes were taken into the potting shed and placed in front of the windows to ripen off.

State of tomato plants after harvesting semi ripe tomatoes as a 4C is forecast for the morning of Thursday and thus possible frost event

As can be seen there are still many green tomatoes on the plants which I have trimmed and thinned out so that more daylight can get to the tomatoes and ripen them off.

I also dug and weeded the mound in front of the last raised bed constructed, and looking at the reduction of the level in that bed that still has tomatoes in it, that will possibly be used to top the raised bed and the other tomato raised bed up once the plants are removed. I need to de-band the remaining 1.2m scaffold boards and construct the next raised beds, but I also need to remove the mound and excavate the footprint and back fill with logs, branches and woodchip back to ground level.

I emptied containers and excavated another 90 Litres from the bed next to the Hotbin that will eventually be used to fill the next raised bed. I stopped excavating here as I soon realised, I didn't still have enough containers to hold all the material. I will source some of the saved sacks and fill those with risings from the excavation.

Beautiful the Robin was around me again today as I was the only person digging their plot. One plot holder was having a family BBQ on their plot and other than that I was the only other plot holder on the site.

Larry and Mo came onto the allotment and It gave me an incite to how effective or not the Fox Repellers were. The foxes didn't like them and basically used the network of paths on my allotment to navigate around them. So purchasing the additional two units will mean that I can set up a unit covering the main 4 entrances onto my plot and hopefully discourage them from actually entering the allotment.