Curly curly kale and catapillers
I was surprised by how well the curly kale was growing, I was able to pick my second…
Author: Steve
New Garden Gate
We have fenced off the garden so that we have a playing area for the children on the…
Monthly Harvest Aug 25
August 2025 August temperatures did not break any records although at the beginning of the month it got…
Netting and weeding
After all the wind and rain for the whole of last week I was wondering what I would…
Hot hot hot… then wind and rain
It was suggested we would have another heat wave but if it happened we didn’t quite get it…
Harvest time in the garden
I remember the cucumber harvest of 2019 where it had 40+ of the things and I was giving…
Late night watering
Quick visits to the plot for some late night watering. It’s been hot these last days, not massively…
Sweetcorn damage on the plot
I did see reports from other plot holders saying mice or rats had eaten all their sweetcorn cobs…
Our first ever celery
Not something I’ve ever thought about trying to grow before, until I was given a packet of celery…
Monthly Harvest July 25
July 2025 We nearly got to 30c but didn’t quite make it. We did have the hottest day…
I don’t even know what I’ve planted out…
I’ve had numerous brassica plants growing undercover for a while which all need planting out, if only I…
Big harvests potato and onion time
A lot has been happening over the last couple of weeks, mostly digging potatoes and pulling up onions.…
Eating from the garden
Just before lunch we take a look in the garden and we may come back with: It’s been…
Monthly Harvest June 25
June 2025 No records broken for temperature in June although the heatwave alert did trigger near the end…
Flowering Lettuce
It looked a bit messy for a while as if I had forgotten to pull up lettuce that…
From garden to kitchen
The whole purpose of growing veg in the garden is the ability to pick and cook within minutes.…
Summer harvests
The days have been hot, it has been an actual heatwave for most of the week. Along with…
It’s suddenly summer in the garden
We’ve had rain and sun and warmth, the days are long and everything is growing. Suddenly the garden…
Monthly Harvest May 25
May 2025 Just a normal May with the weather, although a new record for the coldest May on…
Uncovering beetroot
The black netting has done a good job at keeping squirrels off and it is good in that…
Garlic Harvest and Netting
Just a week ago the garlic was looking very healthy and continuing to grow and then the next…
Garden veg growing
It is now June and the garden is growing well. Our chillies (which we were not going to…
Windy on the plot – planting out sweetcorn
Sunny but really windy, I hoped it the trees would shelter me from most of the wind but…
More planting out in the garden
Rain is forecast later this week and so today seemed a good time to plant out the french…
Planting out sweetcorn and new netting
There would be no point planting out the young sweetcorn plants if I did not first do something…
More watering and then rain…
I thought I would not be up at the plot for a couple of days and so I’ll…
Evening watering
It hasn’t rained much this month which is a pity as for things like potatoes it is just…
Planting out leeks
I’ve never been able to wait until my leek plants are the thickness of a pencil before I…
Monthly Harvest April 25
April 2025 Another record breaking warm month, the end of April was like summer time as the temperate…
Compost bin switch over
It has been well overdue, the yearly “trimming of the trees and bushes” in the garden. They started…
Harvesting radish place holders
Along with seeds that will take a long time to germinate I also sowed old radish seed is…
Monthly Harvest March 25
March 2025 March was both hot and cold. It matched 2023 as the coldest recorded at 1.1c and…
Quick tidy before inspection
It happens each year, the council inspect the plots and those not 75% cultivated for the last 12…
Weeding onions, banking potatoes
It has been a mixture of sun and rain for the last week and I expected to find…
Tidying garden a bit
Warm sunny weather, nearly warm enough to have breakfast in the garden, certainly warm enough to be outside…
Seedlings starting to show
With not much rain over the last weeks I went up to the plot to water the rows…
Potatoes all planted on the hottest day
New records were made today in the garden when it registered 19.1c which is the hottest day of…
Broadbeans and Potatoes
Clocks changed and the first day has been sunny, an early morning not quite so as it did…
The Garden: Onions, seedlings, new growth
After a couple of nice spring-like warm days the garden is starting to get the sun again out…
Parsnips Sown – Strawberry Bed Done
Last year I started to redo the strawberry bed which was in a raised bed covered by a…
Monthly Harvest Feb 25
February 2025 I have not been keeping up with harvest stats too well this year, here is February…
Starting to clear the fence
I was talking to our new neighbours the other day and they were busy clearing the weeds and…
Onion Sets – Digging Beds
I have a mixture of onion sets, overwintered onions from seed, also onions from seed sown the other…
Cutting grass, meeting new people
With the recent warm weather it was nice to go to the plot late afternoon and cut the…
First planting of the year
Late last year I sowed a tray of over-wintering onion seed and I mostly left them outside undercover…
More prep on the plot
Frosty in the morning, clear sky and sun during the morning, I decided to fill another six bags…
Compost for the garden
Each year I am amazed buy how low the level gets in the raised beds. It starts at…
Digging the remaining parsnips
Weather has not been good for weeks but I finally ventured up to the plot today to dig…
Monthly Harvest Jan 25
January 2025 A new year and not a lot going on at the plot, not much to harvest…
Finally a sunny day
It’s either been raining, or windy, or raining and windy… today was the first day for a while…