Weeding onions, banking potatoes
It has been a mixture of sun and rain for the last week and I expected to find…
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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…
New Year Plot Visit
A cold freezing day but the sun had melted most of the ice by mid morning, although the…
Monthly harvest Nov 24
November 2024 Not much going on at the moment, strong wind and rain for most if the month.…
Winter poo and more leaves
The other day I found a new supply of rotted down horse manure, we were out for a…
A Sea of Leaves
You can on longer deny that autumn is here and winter is coming quickly when you see your…
Tidying up the garden – taking down beans
We stopped picking runner beans last month as we just could not keep up with them. We eat…
Monthly Harvest – Oct 24
October 2024 Big outgoings as it was time to pay for another year of the plot, now £70…
Pumpkins out, garlic in
A couple of warm sunny autumn days allowed me to go to the plot during the day and…
Picking pumpkins
Time to start tidying up and prepping things. I pulled the last lot of carrots which got us…
Monthly Harvest – Sept 24
September 2024 Within the garden I’m currently only able to record the temperature which shows no records were…
Autumn suddenly arrives
You visit the plot and it feels just like summer, if not a bit cooler, you cling onto…
Monthly Harvest – August 24
August 2024 It certainly felt like August and it seemed autumn had come early during the second half…
Last of the garden carrots
We have had the best year for carrots in the garden, something we normally struggle with. We have…
Picking dried beans
The borlotti plants on the plot have all died back so it was time to pick off the…
Tomatoes and Beans
I am pretty pleased with the tomatoes, with new ones turning red each day and ready for picking.…
Covering Swedes a Bit More
I covered the swedes last week in order to keep the birds off but it turns out it…
Pumpkins and tomatoes
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
Garden sweetcorn
We have finally picked our first lot of sweetcorn cobs which has worked out really well in the…
Autumn already?
It certainly feels like it, shorter evenings and colder mornings. Have we eaten breakfast in the garden for…
Just need to cut the grass
The garden, I think, is looking really good and I pretty pleased with that we have done, I…
The day of the potatoes
A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…
Sweetcorn and tomatoes in the garden
I have high hopes for our tomatoes and sweetcorn currently growing in the garden. I’ve been removing leaves…
About time I did some weeding
Because in previous years I used to always go up to the plot super early in the morning…
Monthly Harvest July 24
July 2024 The good news is that we have just got hold of a rain meter, so once…
Onions Out, Purple Sprouting In
It was forecast to be a wet week with super hot days in-between, I’d been waiting for a…
The Corn Jungle
Every day, the sweetcorn plants grow taller and we have started to see corn cobs growing on the…
Quick visits to the plot
The one day I had time to be at the plot the weather decided to modal mid winter…
Just the garden growing…
The peas came out this weekend, they finished a couple of weeks ago but some were still keeping…
Rain and warmth in the garden
Rain in the summer is annoying but if it’s warm too then plants will grow and sometimes very…
Courgettes and swedes
We have started to puck courgettes and with all the wet weather I am expecting them to grow…
Monthly Harvest June 24
June 2024 June turned into the hottest month of the year and the hottest June since 2021 in…
New Shed
Back in 2022 we put up a shed at another plot, it was time for us to take…
Suddenly Summer
Lots of watering other the last week leaving the plot with a mixture of over wintered plants coming…
Not so windy in the garden
A super windy weekend which meant it wasn’t the best to spend a lot of time at the…