2018 – The Good & the Bad
A lot of different to last time when we had an allotment, in 2001 we took on a…
Author: Steve
Sprouts and Wind…
While sunny, it was windy and the forecast was that it was going to get worse throughout the…
Put off for long enough
The idea of digging up all the raspberries, deep weeding, replanting raspberries through cardboard and mulch…. I’ve been…
Changed Plans
The idea this morning was to dig up all the raspberry canes, cover with cardboard and manure, then…
Just collecting bits for tea..
Yesterday I picked up 15 bags of manure which I hope to spread over the remainder of the…
A bit more garlic
We succeeded in growing garlic last year and we used each bulb we dug up, so going from…
Keeping warm with a fire
Not so many plots allow you to have fires which is a pity. We had plenty of woody…
Collecting Food
It felt good during summer to be picking things we had grown and making full meals out of…
Garlic and Potatoes
An escape for myself and Tom from the frustrations of computers and technology, we went off to plant…
The Morning After
I got up early and waited until it was light enough to go out, but by that time…
Tidying raspberries & first ever swede
A quick visit between it stopping raining and it getting dark, I thought I would start tidying up…
One Year – celebrating with sprouts
The two exciting things for today was to see the sprouts, although small, are very much viable and…
Muddy veg
Rain and drizzle, darkness and damp – so nothing much planned other than collecting bits for tea. We…
Winter Veg
Just pulling and digging various winter veg this weekend, a quick visit as the sun was setting on…
Overwintering broad beans
A forecast of wind, rain and cold meant I wasn’t planning to do much, but it turned out…
Pottering and Podcasts
No real plan apart from taking up some of the bags of free manure and cardboard boxes. I…
No more raised beds
The clocks have changed, it is cold, wet and windy…. The plan today was to remove the last…
Goodbye runner beans
We didn’t have much luck with runner beans, but they did have a bit of a second life…
The day of the turnips
A quick visit to mulch around the rest of the current bushes with cardboard and manure. There…
A bit of No Dig
The excitement of last week’s manure find as bought to conclusion today with actually using it on the…
Poo
I was going to drive over to see the mushroom man in Yapton and buy some bags of…
Keeping Records
Tracking data and planning is sometimes more fun than doing, watching plans work out is even better; I…
Rain and Rust
First day of autumn and the first morning of a dark cloudy cold rainy day as if it…
Day of the carrots – and radish
We investigated the carrots last week, and they didn’t look too bad, today with picked a load more…
Carrots and paths
Not much on the list of things to do this morning, so I generally pottered about and weeded. …
Last mid week evening visit?
It’s dark in the evenings now which means our mid week evening visits have probably come to an…
Millions of Tomatoes
The Christmas potatoes had all come up and so I filled in the trench that they are planted…
How long were we away?
We went away for just the weekend, but when we came back the plot looked a lot different,…
All of a sudden… courgettes
A quick visit this evening as it was Wednesday, we had a small list of things to do…
Cabbage cabbage cabbage
I don’t like cabbage, but I’m determined to like it by the end of winter as we are…
Christmas Potatoes
After all the prep, this morning I planted the potatoes that might just do something in time for…
Ready for Potatoes
Could this be our last mid week evening visit, there is not much daylight left in the evenings…
Turnips and Beetroot
Some serious rain over the last couple of days, I know only too well as I was cycling…
Sprouts get a new home
This time last week it was windy and rainy, just for the day; early start today before the…
Wind and rain
It did finally rain, for a whole day, which was nice. Then, during the night the wind and…
A small bit of rain
We nearly got through July without a spot of rain, parts of the country seemed to have been…
Spotted: Calabrese
Just a quick visit this morning to get in some early morning watering, although ‘quick’ is an interesting…
The night of the onions
I was actually quite excited and had waited all day, this evening we would lift all the onions…
Hose Pipes and Talking to People
Hot summer days means people are on their plots early in the morning, previous times it was just…
Late evening kale
Maybe I have left it a bit late to plant the kale plants out from their pots in…
A life with no Water
We shall all surely die, it hasn’t rained for years (or maybe just days/weeks) and the prospect of…
Garlic Harvest
Plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day – in order to keep to this we…
Sprouts, leeks, decking
Tom and myself went for a quick visit on Friday night to see how the marigolds we planted…
Leeks all over the place
We sowed seed and nothing happened, so we sowed some more, not much happened. We did this on…
Brasica netting on the cheap
The calabrese has been hardening off outside in pots at home for a good month now, I have…
Who’s been eating?
Not us, but something has, nothing major but a lot of nibbling of strawberries, rocket, french and runner…
First harvest – garlic scapes
Long curly stems stared to appear on the garlic which I thought must be it starting to flower. …
Midweek evening – no need to water
Wednesday evening me and Tom go to the plot to weed, water, and generally potter about. This week…
Found Mushrooms – life is complete!
Eight years ago I finally met “the mushroom man”, the mystery person in Horam who I had gone…
Indoor progress
Tomatoes and peppers by the window, turning our bedroom into a green house. I’m still not sure what…