
Weekly Harvest 13th April 21
13th April 2021 I picked a whole load and yet it seemed to make no difference to what…
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13th April 2021 I picked a whole load and yet it seemed to make no difference to what…
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…
30th March 2021 The weekly ‘leek report’… 2021 B/F –£28.89 IN OUT leek- 400g £0.88 WEEK TOTAL £0.88…
I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
16th March 2021 More leeks…. 2021 B/F –£29.44 IN OUT leek- 250g £0.55 WEEK TOTAL £0.55 RUNNING 2021…
Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…
9th March 2021 Just popping up to pull some leeks…. it’s all mostly leeks at the moment. 2021…
I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…
Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…
Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…
23rd February 2021 A visit to the plot showed the pigeons had been hungry and eaten all the…
The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…
9th February 2021 Man can’t live on just swede and turnip… although I’m sure he could if he…
There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…
An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…
2nd February 2021 We fancied leek and potato soup and so we went up and pulled a couple…
There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…
26th January 2021 Swedes and turnips, and a handful of sprouts that I found. I’m leaving the leaks…
I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…
19th January 2021 Less of a harvest and more of a spending session online. I had no multi-purpose…
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
12th January 2021 Another bite size swede which once again was just the right size for a meal…
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
5th January 2021 It was time to dig up the parsnips in the garden. These were all last…
Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
29th December 2020 Nothing says Christmas like a turnip….. possibly. It seems like a poor Christmas harvest but…
22nd December 2020 The calm before Christmas, and the prospect of empty shelves in shops while everyone panics,…
This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…
Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…
15th December 2020 The last of the beetroot was pulled from the garden. It was a cold a…
Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…
8th December 2020 Parsnips on the plot, I started digging them up and before I knew it I…
Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…
1st December 2020 A quiet week, for no real reason apart from… well no real reason at all.…
I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…
The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…
24th November 2020 We finally picked a fennel bulb and roast it. The strong aniseed smell you get…
The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…
17th November 2020 Last week I was surprised by raspberries and I picked them all, this week they…
It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…
10th November 2020 I was rather surprised to see so many raspberries when I went up to the…
Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…
27th October 2020 I must plan out next year’s seeds and put in an order, I’ve been saying…
I sowed celeriac back in the spring, looked after the seedlings as they grew, kept them watered and…
Probably the only sunny and clear day for a little while and certainly the last chance for an…
20th October 2020 Almost like the last super, you can feel this is the ‘last harvest’ of the…