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No more cherry tree

SteveJanuary 23, 2021

I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…

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2020 Summary

SteveJanuary 17, 2021January 17, 2021

A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…

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Deep freeze in the garden

SteveJanuary 10, 2021January 9, 2021

We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…

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Zombies, coffee and cow poo

SteveJanuary 9, 2021

Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…

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Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries

SteveDecember 31, 2020December 31, 2020

It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…

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Digging the garden

SteveDecember 19, 2020

This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…

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Pruning Things

SteveDecember 18, 2020

Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…

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Digging Weed Roots

SteveDecember 13, 2020

Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…

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A quarter of the parsnips

SteveDecember 6, 2020

Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…

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More poo in the garden

SteveNovember 30, 2020November 29, 2020

I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…

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Beans and Cabbages

SteveNovember 29, 2020

The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…

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Mini red cabbage and fennel

SteveNovember 22, 2020

The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…

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Just a winter late afternoon visit

SteveNovember 15, 2020

It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…

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Fire time

SteveNovember 8, 2020November 8, 2020

Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…

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Pulling carrots in the rain

SteveOctober 25, 2020

I sowed celeriac back in the spring, looked after the seedlings as they grew, kept them watered and…

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Making the most of the sun and the day light

SteveOctober 22, 2020

Probably the only sunny and clear day for a little while and certainly the last chance for an…

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Planting Garlic

SteveOctober 9, 2020October 10, 2020

We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…

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Pottering in the (early) autumn sun

SteveSeptember 26, 2020

No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…

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Garden taking shape

SteveSeptember 23, 2020September 22, 2020

I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…

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Climbing trees, again

SteveSeptember 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…

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Planting peas and beans

SteveSeptember 13, 2020

The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…

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Working in the Garden

SteveSeptember 6, 2020

After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…

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Prepping Beds

SteveSeptember 5, 2020

There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…

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Using our own compost

SteveAugust 31, 2020

Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…

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Starting to Tidy

SteveAugust 26, 2020

It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…

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Garden plans and strawberry beds

SteveAugust 23, 2020

When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…

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Evening visits in the heat

SteveAugust 19, 2020

All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…

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Super hot and it’s only 10am

SteveAugust 9, 2020

I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…

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Late Night Poo

SteveAugust 5, 2020

It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…

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Watering and tidying

SteveAugust 2, 2020

Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…

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Podcast

SteveJuly 30, 2020July 30, 2020

It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…

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Blackberries, swedes, courgettes – and paths

SteveJuly 27, 2020

A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…

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One last lot of carrots

SteveJuly 22, 2020

The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…

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Harvests from the garden

SteveJuly 19, 2020

The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…

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Leeks and netting

SteveJuly 15, 2020

Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…

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Evening watering and currants

SteveJuly 13, 2020

For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…

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Wintery evening of onions

SteveJuly 12, 2020July 13, 2020

Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…

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Problem with wind…

SteveJuly 5, 2020

Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…

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Day of the currants and the poo

SteveJune 28, 2020

Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…

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Night of the Potatoes

SteveJune 24, 2020

Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…

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Tidying

SteveJune 22, 2020

A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…

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Rain – Sun – Fruit

SteveJune 21, 2020

A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…

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Cutting down trees

SteveJune 15, 2020

Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…

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Bye celeriac, hello tomatoes

SteveJune 6, 2020June 6, 2020

They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…

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An early morning

SteveMay 31, 2020June 3, 2020

I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…

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Planting sprouts

SteveMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020

It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…

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Cutting back

SteveMay 17, 2020May 18, 2020

A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…

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Eating radish

SteveMay 10, 2020

The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…

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Back to the Plot – for now

SteveMay 3, 2020May 6, 2020

Let us not get over excited, all the talk by the media of relaxing lock down (have they…

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French beans and parsnips

SteveMay 2, 2020

In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…

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