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Curly curly kale and catapillers

SteveOctober 5, 2025

I was surprised by how well the curly kale was growing, I was able to pick my second…

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New Garden Gate

SteveSeptember 22, 2025

We have fenced off the garden so that we have a playing area for the children on the…

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Netting and weeding

SteveSeptember 7, 2025

After all the wind and rain for the whole of last week I was wondering what I would…

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Hot hot hot… then wind and rain

SteveSeptember 4, 2025

It was suggested we would have another heat wave but if it happened we didn’t quite get it…

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Harvest time in the garden

SteveAugust 16, 2025August 15, 2025

I remember the cucumber harvest of 2019 where it had 40+ of the things and I was giving…

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Late night watering

SteveAugust 15, 2025

Quick visits to the plot for some late night watering. It’s been hot these last days, not massively…

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Sweetcorn damage on the plot

SteveAugust 11, 2025August 10, 2025

I did see reports from other plot holders saying mice or rats had eaten all their sweetcorn cobs…

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Our first ever celery

SteveAugust 10, 2025

Not something I’ve ever thought about trying to grow before, until I was given a packet of celery…

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I don’t even know what I’ve planted out…

SteveJuly 28, 2025

I’ve had numerous brassica plants growing undercover for a while which all need planting out, if only I…

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Big harvests potato and onion time

SteveJuly 27, 2025

A lot has been happening over the last couple of weeks, mostly digging potatoes and pulling up onions.…

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Eating from the garden

SteveJuly 6, 2025July 5, 2025

Just before lunch we take a look in the garden and we may come back with: It’s been…

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Flowering Lettuce

SteveJuly 5, 2025

It looked a bit messy for a while as if I had forgotten to pull up lettuce that…

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From garden to kitchen

SteveJune 25, 2025

The whole purpose of growing veg in the garden is the ability to pick and cook within minutes.…

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Summer harvests

SteveJune 25, 2025

The days have been hot, it has been an actual heatwave for most of the week. Along with…

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It’s suddenly summer in the garden

SteveJune 18, 2025June 18, 2025

We’ve had rain and sun and warmth, the days are long and everything is growing. Suddenly the garden…

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Uncovering beetroot

SteveJune 11, 2025June 11, 2025

The black netting has done a good job at keeping squirrels off and it is good in that…

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Garlic Harvest and Netting

SteveJune 9, 2025

Just a week ago the garlic was looking very healthy and continuing to grow and then the next…

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Garden veg growing

SteveJune 3, 2025

It is now June and the garden is growing well. Our chillies (which we were not going to…

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Windy on the plot – planting out sweetcorn

SteveJune 2, 2025

Sunny but really windy, I hoped it the trees would shelter me from most of the wind but…

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More planting out in the garden

SteveMay 26, 2025

Rain is forecast later this week and so today seemed a good time to plant out the french…

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Planting out sweetcorn and new netting

SteveMay 25, 2025

There would be no point planting out the young sweetcorn plants if I did not first do something…

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More watering and then rain…

SteveMay 25, 2025

I thought I would not be up at the plot for a couple of days and so I’ll…

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Evening watering

SteveMay 18, 2025

It hasn’t rained much this month which is a pity as for things like potatoes it is just…

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Planting out leeks

SteveMay 12, 2025

I’ve never been able to wait until my leek plants are the thickness of a pencil before I…

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Compost bin switch over

SteveMay 7, 2025

It has been well overdue, the yearly “trimming of the trees and bushes” in the garden. They started…

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Harvesting radish place holders

SteveApril 30, 2025April 30, 2025

Along with seeds that will take a long time to germinate I also sowed old radish seed is…

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Quick tidy before inspection

SteveApril 25, 2025

It happens each year, the council inspect the plots and those not 75% cultivated for the last 12…

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Weeding onions, banking potatoes

SteveApril 22, 2025

It has been a mixture of sun and rain for the last week and I expected to find…

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Tidying garden a bit

SteveApril 21, 2025

Warm sunny weather, nearly warm enough to have breakfast in the garden, certainly warm enough to be outside…

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Seedlings starting to show

SteveApril 13, 2025

With not much rain over the last weeks I went up to the plot to water the rows…

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Potatoes all planted on the hottest day

SteveApril 4, 2025

New records were made today in the garden when it registered 19.1c which is the hottest day of…

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Broadbeans and Potatoes

SteveMarch 30, 2025

Clocks changed and the first day has been sunny, an early morning not quite so as it did…

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The Garden: Onions, seedlings, new growth

SteveMarch 26, 2025

After a couple of nice spring-like warm days the garden is starting to get the sun again out…

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Parsnips Sown – Strawberry Bed Done

SteveMarch 23, 2025

Last year I started to redo the strawberry bed which was in a raised bed covered by a…

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Starting to clear the fence

SteveMarch 15, 2025

I was talking to our new neighbours the other day and they were busy clearing the weeds and…

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Onion Sets – Digging Beds

SteveMarch 14, 2025

I have a mixture of onion sets, overwintered onions from seed, also onions from seed sown the other…

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Cutting grass, meeting new people

SteveMarch 12, 2025

With the recent warm weather it was nice to go to the plot late afternoon and cut the…

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First planting of the year

SteveMarch 7, 2025

Late last year I sowed a tray of over-wintering onion seed and I mostly left them outside undercover…

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More prep on the plot

SteveFebruary 28, 2025February 28, 2025

Frosty in the morning, clear sky and sun during the morning, I decided to fill another six bags…

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Compost for the garden

SteveFebruary 16, 2025

Each year I am amazed buy how low the level gets in the raised beds. It starts at…

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Digging the remaining parsnips

SteveFebruary 15, 2025

Weather has not been good for weeks but I finally ventured up to the plot today to dig…

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Finally a sunny day

SteveJanuary 25, 2025

It’s either been raining, or windy, or raining and windy… today was the first day for a while…

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New Year Plot Visit

SteveJanuary 3, 2025

A cold freezing day but the sun had melted most of the ice by mid morning, although the…

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Winter poo and more leaves

SteveNovember 17, 2024

The other day I found a new supply of rotted down horse manure, we were out for a…

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A Sea of Leaves

SteveNovember 15, 2024

You can on longer deny that autumn is here and winter is coming quickly when you see your…

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Tidying up the garden – taking down beans

SteveNovember 8, 2024

We stopped picking runner beans last month as we just could not keep up with them. We eat…

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Pumpkins out, garlic in

SteveOctober 20, 2024

A couple of warm sunny autumn days allowed me to go to the plot during the day and…

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Picking pumpkins

SteveOctober 13, 2024November 19, 2024

Time to start tidying up and prepping things. I pulled the last lot of carrots which got us…

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Autumn suddenly arrives

SteveSeptember 22, 2024

You visit the plot and it feels just like summer, if not a bit cooler, you cling onto…

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Last of the garden carrots

SteveSeptember 14, 2024

We have had the best year for carrots in the garden, something we normally struggle with. We have…

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