A combination of poor weather, a cold, a trip to London (on the best weekend of the month!) and a bad back have all contributed to a less than productive month on my plot. I have barely been there to do anything but have made a couple of quick raids to see if there was anything worth harvesting. And have been rewarded by still harvesting assorted lettuce leaves, oriental greens, kale, a couple of small cabbages, a romanesco cauliflower and finally last week the oca. I was disappointed by both the size of the oca harvest and the individual tubers. Not sure if it was the dry summer or maybe the hastily built raised bed and poor compost they were planted in. Will try again next year as I do think they are a tasty crop – my daughter got hold of these and turned them into a surprisingly good vegan curry.
Oca Harvest – Nov 2018 
White Romanesco
With help from fellow allotmenteers plus my daughter and her boyfriend I finally managed to move the shed I had purchased in the allotment auction way back in June on to my plot. But I still have some issues to resolve before I feel confident about erecting it. There’s a vacant half-plot next to mine covered in brambles and I was asked to leave space at the top of my plot to allow access for the council to get across with machinery to remove them and rotavate the plot (personally I think this is a recipe for disaster!) and the route across would be just where I want to site the shed. I’ve also learnt that a new drain is to be put in across the top of my plot. And none of this work is scheduled to take place until February at the earliest so somewhat thwarted at the moment.
Shed moving 
Shed stacked up
My Plenty Food Project 