And Then The Rain Came

So the 25th of June, the day that mother nature tried washing Sheffield and Hull off the map and the day she tried bursting Ulley Res's banks... We're right on the top of a hill so there was no way that we were going to get properly flooded but the volume of water that fell in such a short space of time managed to overwhelm the drainage capacity of out humble allotment... The weather had been pretty grim for a while so there wasn't much tidying or maintainance going on to be fair but the floods put the boot in...


The path was a flowing stream for a while, the brassica bed filled up like a pond and finished off more or less everything apart from the salad stuff and the swedes (i hope)...


No, that's not a paddy field, that's the red onions and shallots, sat in at least an inch of water, they were looking so good too...


...and this is what it looked like the next day... most of the red onions ended up rotting, we pulled them all up, and the shallots, but they weren't really ready and they were pretty small once we'd peeled off what i thing was white rot... ah well... maybe next year, we might have some normal weather.