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…
More potatoes and onions
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
More sowing at home
While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…
So much rhubarb
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
Potatoes are go…
Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…
Onions and rhubarb
I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…
Just sowing…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
Prepping the beds
Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…
New Poo… and garden bed finished
I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…
Repotting & Sun on the Plot
Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…
Work continues at home
Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…
Freezing weather and beans
The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…
Pottering in the (no) snow
There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…
Cutting down the Hop
An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…
Just a walk to get bits for tea…
There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…
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…