Weekly Harvest 12th Jan 21
12th January 2021 Another bite size swede which once again was just the right size for a meal…
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Deep freeze in the garden
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
Weekly Harvest 5th Jan 2021
5th January 2021 It was time to dig up the parsnips in the garden. These were all last…
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…
Weekly Harvest 29th Dec 2020
29th December 2020 Nothing says Christmas like a turnip….. possibly. It seems like a poor Christmas harvest but…
Weekly Harvest 22nd Dec 20
22nd December 2020 The calm before Christmas, and the prospect of empty shelves in shops while everyone panics,…
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…
Weekly Harvest 15th Dec 20
15th December 2020 The last of the beetroot was pulled from the garden. It was a cold a…
Digging Weed Roots
Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…
Weekly Harvest 8th Dec 2020
8th December 2020 Parsnips on the plot, I started digging them up and before I knew it I…
A quarter of the parsnips
Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…
Weekly Harvest 1st December 2020
1st December 2020 A quiet week, for no real reason apart from… well no real reason at all.…
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…
Weekly Harvest 24th Nov 20
24th November 2020 We finally picked a fennel bulb and roast it. The strong aniseed smell you get…
Mini red cabbage and fennel
The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…
Weekly Harvest 17th Nov 20
17th November 2020 Last week I was surprised by raspberries and I picked them all, this week they…
Just a winter late afternoon visit
It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…
Weekly Harvest 10th Nov 20
10th November 2020 I was rather surprised to see so many raspberries when I went up to the…
Fire time
Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…
Weekly Harvest 27th Oct 20
27th October 2020 I must plan out next year’s seeds and put in an order, I’ve been saying…
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…
Weekly Harvest 20th Oct 20
20th October 2020 Almost like the last super, you can feel this is the ‘last harvest’ of the…
Weekly Harvest 13th Oct 20
13th October 2020 October is the most expensive month being the time to pay the yearly plot fees.…
Planting Garlic
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
Weekly Harvest 6th Oct 20
We have been watching for months, the small butternut squash fruits slowly growing… Some even managed to get…
Weekly Harvest 29th Sept 20
29th September 2020 A bit of a surprise from the large carrots from the plot, both normal orange…
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…
22nd Sept Weekly Harvest
22nd September 2020 Cucamelons and tomatoes following a bit of a warm and sunny week. It’ a race…
Climbing trees, again
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
Weekly Harvest 15th Sept 20
15th September 2020 We are pacing ourselves with white cabbage having picked one a couple of weeks ago…
Planting peas and beans
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
Weekly Harvest 8th Sept20
8th September 2020 Rather lacking on harvest photos as we just pick them as needed from the garden…
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…
Weekly Harvest 1st Sept 20
1st September 2020 It feels cold these days and a warm chicken casserole means we need autumn vegetables…
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…
Weekly Harvest 25th Aug 20
25th August 2020 We found then left over under the stairs, we planted them, we watched them grow…
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…
Weekly Harvest 18th Aug 20
18th August 2020 We have waited long enough for cucamelons, they have been growing very slowly for months…
Weekly Harvest 11th Aug 20
11th August 2020 This year it seems like smaller harvests, but then this year we have things growing…
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.…
Weekly Harvest 4th Aug 20
4th August 2020 I had another go at blackberry picking and returned with loads once again. that’s probably…