
Tomatoes, Squash, Decking
Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
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Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
Suddenly, both the garlic and the overwintered onions looked ready, they had both died back. I did have…
The last week has been very hot and summer like, it ended with thunder, heavy rain and very…
We have had hot days of 24c and then lots of heavy rain in between, good weather for…
Nice warm weather means early morning the the garden, watering and weeding – then sitting down with toast…
An early 7am start, up to the plot in the car with various things to plant out. I…
Only when you look at photos from the week before do you notice just how much things have…
Not much on the plot this weekend. Saturday was like a summer’s day, blue sky and hot, Sunday…
A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…
It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…
I was just going out in the garden to sow some runner and french bean seeds, but to…
A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…
We ran out of time over Easter, the finishing touch to the two new beds in the garden…
We also planted out some lettuce plants that have been growing in pots for the last month. I…
An early morning start at the plot, and why not with the good Easter weather we were having.…
I had hoped to had spent the evenings during the week finishing off the second bed, but the…
The garden is annoying in that it is not on a hill and yet it is on a…
A freaky warm week, blue skies and sun. I spent an early morning at the plot and it…
On week to go until the clocks change, suddenly evening visits become possible. Even this week, with recent…
No our plot, we aren’t allowed sheds on our plot. Myself and Tom built a shed, well Tom…
It was blue skies and sun, cold but warm when the sun was on you. That was the…
I wasn’t too worried, although I knew I had not really secured the netting very well last week…
Most weekends so far this year have been wet and miserable, not much going on in the garden…
Sown months and months ago, these take a very long time to mature and give something to harvest.…
Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
We seem to take days off work over Christmas when it’s dark and wet and not much going…
Short days, mostly just drizzle, damp, and cloud, but sometimes the odd bit of sun too. I took…
An unexpected sunny (cold) afternoon with a couple of hours to spare, so I thought I would plant…
A quick visit to the plot, it was my birthday and I had a new Hori Hori knife…
It was cold but it was very sunny, which seemed like a good time to do bits in…
We braved the wind and the cold to venture out to Hurstpierpoint to buy a second hoe so…
I was faced with a thick sea of leaves when I arrived at the plot late in the…
Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…
I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…
Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…
A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…
Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…
I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…
Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…
With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…