No more cherry tree
I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…
2020 Summary
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
Deep freeze in the garden
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
Zombies, coffee and cow poo
Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…
Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
Digging the garden
This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…
Pruning Things
Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…
Digging Weed Roots
Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…
A quarter of the parsnips
Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…
More poo in the garden
I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…
Beans and Cabbages
The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…
Mini red cabbage and fennel
The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…
Just a winter late afternoon visit
It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…
Fire time
Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…
Pulling carrots in the rain
I sowed celeriac back in the spring, looked after the seedlings as they grew, kept them watered and…
Making the most of the sun and the day light
Probably the only sunny and clear day for a little while and certainly the last chance for an…
Planting Garlic
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
Pottering in the (early) autumn sun
No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…
Garden taking shape
I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…
Climbing trees, again
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
Planting peas and beans
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
Working in the Garden
After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…
Prepping Beds
There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…
Using our own compost
Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…
Starting to Tidy
It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…
Garden plans and strawberry beds
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
Evening visits in the heat
All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
Super hot and it’s only 10am
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
Late Night Poo
It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
Watering and tidying
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
Podcast
It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…
Blackberries, swedes, courgettes – and paths
A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…
One last lot of carrots
The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
Harvests from the garden
The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Leeks and netting
Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
Evening watering and currants
For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Wintery evening of onions
Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Problem with wind…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Day of the currants and the poo
Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…
Night of the Potatoes
Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
Tidying
A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…
Rain – Sun – Fruit
A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Cutting down trees
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
Bye celeriac, hello tomatoes
They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
An early morning
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
Planting sprouts
It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
Cutting back
A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
Eating radish
The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
Back to the Plot – for now
Let us not get over excited, all the talk by the media of relaxing lock down (have they…
French beans and parsnips
In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…