Weekly Harvest 18th Jan 22
18th January 2022 We did pull the parsnips from the plot this week. This is the left overs…
Author: Steve
Parsnips from the plot
Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…
Weekly Harvest 4th Jan 22
4th January 2022 There is plenty on the plot for the start of a new year. All the…
2021 Summary
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
Dark and wet days – moving rhubarb
We seem to take days off work over Christmas when it’s dark and wet and not much going…
Weekly Harvest 28th Dec 21
28th December 2021 We were not at home for Christmas, but we did take our own parsnips to…
Weekly Harvest 21st Dec 21
12st December 2021 Finally pulled the last of the beetroot, both at the plot and at home. The…
More onions and less fence
Short days, mostly just drizzle, damp, and cloud, but sometimes the odd bit of sun too. I took…
Weekly Harvest 14th Dec 21
14th December 2021 There has yet to be a bad parsnip day, each time I dig them up…
Blackberry Planted
An unexpected sunny (cold) afternoon with a couple of hours to spare, so I thought I would plant…
Weekly Harvest 7th Dec 21
7th December 2021 I really fancied mashed potato with leeks and kale, so I went to the plot…
Knives and Birthdays
A quick visit to the plot, it was my birthday and I had a new Hori Hori knife…
Weekly Harvest 30th Nov 21
30th November 2021 Very pleased with the parsnips from the garden, happy I have brought the fork from…
Parsnips from the garden
It was cold but it was very sunny, which seemed like a good time to do bits in…
Hammer and Blackberries
We braved the wind and the cold to venture out to Hurstpierpoint to buy a second hoe so…
Weekly Harvest 23rd Nov 21
23rd November 2021 We have started using the parsnips from the garden, forgetting just how difficult it is…
Leaves everywhere
I was faced with a thick sea of leaves when I arrived at the plot late in the…
Weekly Harvest 16th Nov 21
16th November 2021 No pictures again – just picked beetroot to share. 2021 B/F £347.83 IN OUT beetroot…
Weekly Harvest 9th Nov 21
9th November 2021 No pictures, we picked the things and cooked them straight away. Still trying to eat…
Woodchip and poo
Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…
Weekly Harvest 2nd Nov 21
2nd November 2021 .Finally pulled up the carrots, a mix of good large ones and a load of…
Quick visit for carrots
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
Strawberries Moved
I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…
Weekly Harvest 19th Oct 21
19th October 2021 The week of the squashes, I’m not sure what to do with them now we…
Strawberries and onions
I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…
Weekly Harvest 13th Oct 21
13th October 2021 I’ve started to pull the carrots, it will soon be too wet and damp for…
Clearing and netting in the garden
Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…
Strawberries and fence
A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…
Weekly Harvest – 5th Oct 21
5th October 2021 October is always allotment fee month, so that’s £60s that goes straight away. It has…
Weekly Harvest
28th September 2021 Finally we start pulling a lot of beetroot. Some we eat straight away, some we…
An autumn feeling
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
Weekly Harvest 21st Sept 21
21st September 2021 A bit of a lack of photos… We pulled a load of small carrots from…
Weekly Harvest 14th Sept 21
14th September 2021 Summer plants are coming to an end, we are picking the last lot of runner…
Compost and the Shredder 2000
An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…
Weekly Harvest 7th Sept 21
7th September 2021 It’s suddenly a rather late hot summer, for at least four days. Courgettes have slowed…
Garden Flowers & Squash
Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…
Turnip Time
I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…
Weekly Harvest 31st Aug 21
31st August 2021 We finally dug the potatoes in the garden and the harvest was a good as…
Lots of jobs done
Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…
Garden Potatoes
With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Weekly Harvest 24th Aug 21
24th August 2021 The rest of the potatoes on the plot did not disappoint. The number of courgette…
Quick visit to fetch courgettes
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
Potatoes and Fences
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
Discovering the Leeks
I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
Weekly Harvest 10th Aug 21
10th August 2021 A positive start some actual red tomatoes growing well, and being picked, in the garden.…
Another year of green tomatoes
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…
Weekly Harvest 3rd August 21
3rd August 2021 It’s a week of millions of courgettes from just two plants, and a week of…
Planting out things
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
Picking up tomato plants
It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…