Parsnips from the plot
Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…
2021 Summary
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
Dark and wet days – moving rhubarb
We seem to take days off work over Christmas when it’s dark and wet and not much going…
More onions and less fence
Short days, mostly just drizzle, damp, and cloud, but sometimes the odd bit of sun too. I took…
Blackberry Planted
An unexpected sunny (cold) afternoon with a couple of hours to spare, so I thought I would plant…
Knives and Birthdays
A quick visit to the plot, it was my birthday and I had a new Hori Hori knife…
Parsnips from the garden
It was cold but it was very sunny, which seemed like a good time to do bits in…
Hammer and Blackberries
We braved the wind and the cold to venture out to Hurstpierpoint to buy a second hoe so…
Leaves everywhere
I was faced with a thick sea of leaves when I arrived at the plot late in the…
Woodchip and poo
Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…
Quick visit for carrots
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
Strawberries Moved
I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…
Strawberries and onions
I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…
Clearing and netting in the garden
Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…
Strawberries and fence
A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…
An autumn feeling
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
Compost and the Shredder 2000
An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…
Garden Flowers & Squash
Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…
Turnip Time
I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…
Lots of jobs done
Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…
Garden Potatoes
With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Quick visit to fetch courgettes
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
Potatoes and Fences
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
Discovering the Leeks
I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
Another year of green tomatoes
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…
Planting out things
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
Picking up tomato plants
It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…
Summer Evenings
It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…
The Night of the Potatoes – lots of them
One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…
Squash plants in the garden
The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…
It’s Summer Time
Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…
Tidying the garden
Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…
Wind damaged tomatoes
Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…
A bit of calm before all the storms
It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…
Cloudy, murky, but warm(ish)
Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…
Weeding after the rain
Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…
Squash plants do like the rain
After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…
An evening of planting
It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes
Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…
How does your garden grow?
After a bit of sun after all this rain and cold, it grows very well. The sunny bank…
Sun!
A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…
The Day After Tomorrow
I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…
Planting out Parsnips
The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…
Good Growing Weather
It’s not the warm spring days we enjoyed this time last year, sometimes it feels like the middle…
The night of the netting
The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…
A bit of warmth & the garden grows
Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…
Rain and sun
Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…
The Longest (busiest) Day
The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
Evening Visits
Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…