Wish I'd seen this recipe earlier, am making Hugh F-whittingstall's 'glutney' using up some of courgette glut plus green blighted toms.

Gloom, all tomato plants 'blighted' so have reluctantly removed all fruits and started looking up green tomato chutney recipes. Whilst I'm having a moan - allotment out of control - happens every year - get a couple of weeks of rain (rains on my days off sunny on work days) now housing the National ...

Chap on my allotment swears that the no blanching method is better but haven't tried it myself. Good luck!!!!!!!!!

Yes madasafish I'd like to know too!

Marestail - mare's tail - is rampant on all our allotments, the roots go on for miles, nothing seems to work. I read recently you have to 'bruise' the weed before spraying with weedkiller, so will have to try that, but so many other demands on my time on the allotment.

How dispiriting. Maybe some sort of a deterrent in the form of a smell to reclaim your territory. Hair? urine?. Electric stock fencing? - but expensive. There may be some advice available through your local council.

Many thanks! have sprayed them off with hose as a temporary measure.

Am very stupid! forgot to post pic, here goes!!

Does anyone have any idea what these grey caterpillars are eating my Dicentra solomon's Seal - not a veg I know but there is so much knowledge on here someone is bound to know. Here's hoping.

I compost my own haulms if they are disease free which hardly ever happens, but never ever peelings from a bought potato.

Well, my potato plant had collapsed, brown spots, yellowish leaves - I guess I just panicked! No flowers on my spuds at all so far, eveyone else on the site has loads, perhaps its the variety I've planted, whose name I have forgotten - doh!

Well I hadn't thought of sun scorch, I haven't thrown any potatoes away and only the tops of one so no loss incurred.

How disappointing, went to allotment this morning to pick the rest of the broad beans, and my potatoes are showing signs of blight. They haven't even flowered yet. Anyway, have cut off affected stems and leaves and taken away. Will have to keep a close eye.

Thanks Felix - I shall go and examine old timers courgettes immediately and see what they look like!!! On a serious note, I really appreciate the support and its nice to know everything is fine - so thanks to all of you.

Haha! Thanks for that - I will leave them alone. My small allotment site of 30 plots is very strictly regulated and mainly 'farmed' (as they will call it) by old timers who enjoy dispensing advice and wisdom!!