Tomatoes, Squash, Decking
Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
Garlic and Onion Harvest
Suddenly, both the garlic and the overwintered onions looked ready, they had both died back. I did have…
Kitchen Garden – Summer Time
The last week has been very hot and summer like, it ended with thunder, heavy rain and very…
Sun – Rain – Sun – Mice
We have had hot days of 24c and then lots of heavy rain in between, good weather for…
Early morning watering
Nice warm weather means early morning the the garden, watering and weeding – then sitting down with toast…
Planting out at the plot
An early 7am start, up to the plot in the car with various things to plant out. I…
Lots of planting in the garden
Only when you look at photos from the week before do you notice just how much things have…
A little bit of rain in the garden
Not much on the plot this weekend. Saturday was like a summer’s day, blue sky and hot, Sunday…
Left over potatoes and cutting grass
A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…
Lots of Weeding – no Rain
It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…
Peas in the Garden
I was just going out in the garden to sow some runner and french bean seeds, but to…
Earthing Up Potatoes – sowing carrots
A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…
Grass in the Garden
We ran out of time over Easter, the finishing touch to the two new beds in the garden…
Sowing seeds in the Garden
We also planted out some lettuce plants that have been growing in pots for the last month. I…
Potatoes all in…
An early morning start at the plot, and why not with the good Easter weather we were having.…
Garden beds ready
I had hoped to had spent the evenings during the week finishing off the second bed, but the…
Change in the Garden
The garden is annoying in that it is not on a hill and yet it is on a…
Potatoes and Parsnips
A freaky warm week, blue skies and sun. I spent an early morning at the plot and it…
Late night digging
On week to go until the clocks change, suddenly evening visits become possible. Even this week, with recent…
Building a Shed not on our plot
No our plot, we aren’t allowed sheds on our plot. Myself and Tom built a shed, well Tom…
Compost and onions
It was blue skies and sun, cold but warm when the sun was on you. That was the…
After the Storm
I wasn’t too worried, although I knew I had not really secured the netting very well last week…
Poo in the Garden
Most weekends so far this year have been wet and miserable, not much going on in the garden…
Looking after the Purple Sprouting
Sown months and months ago, these take a very long time to mature and give something to harvest.…
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…