Strawberry netting and potatoes SteveApril 21, 2024 A had a chance afternoon not at work during the week and so took the opportunity to spend…
Weekly Harvest March 2024 SteveApril 17, 2024 March 2024 A month of spending money, on seed potatoes (normal) and three new gooseberry bushes (a one…
Prepping for Courgettes SteveApril 14, 2024 Cloudy early morning which soon turned to warm sun. I cycled up to the plot as the main…
Planting out onions SteveApril 8, 2024April 7, 2024 It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
Parsnips in the wind SteveApril 7, 2024 Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
Potatoes planted SteveMarch 30, 2024 So far with Easter weather, promised to be windy and unsettled, has turned out to be warm with…
First sowing in the garden for 2024 SteveMarch 29, 2024 Easter weekend, early this year at the end of March. So far this year it has been mostly…
Onions planted – beds prepped SteveMarch 23, 2024 Forecast for rain but when I woke up it was blue sky and sunny. I wasn’t planning anything…
Shop compost for the garden beds SteveMarch 17, 2024March 16, 2024 We make compost at home but there is not enough waste to make a lot of it, so…
Enough home made compost to go around SteveMarch 16, 2024 After a bit of a rainy week and next week looking like much the same, Saturday started off…
More beans and no fruit cage SteveMarch 3, 2024 It must be the first day of the year where it has been cold but sunny, clear blue…
Weekly Harvest Feb 24 SteveFebruary 29, 2024 February 2024 Not much going on at the moment, mostly wind and rain. I did pop up to…
Cold and Wet SteveFebruary 25, 2024 There was a brief bit of early morning sun and blue sky which made me think I could…
Chilli seedlings SteveFebruary 19, 2024 Not much has happened on the plot for weeks because it’s been constantly raining all month. However, at…
Frozen broad beans SteveJanuary 28, 2024 For the last couple of years we have not had any frost or sub-zero temperatures. We got a…
Weekly Harvest 14th Jan 24 SteveJanuary 14, 2024 14th January 2024 I wasn’t sure what to expect from the parsnips as they had struggled all year.…
New year – new neighbour SteveJanuary 6, 2024January 6, 2024 2024 has (still) not given us flying cars but it has given us lots of rain and high…
A sunny day – prepping a bed SteveDecember 10, 2023 I had a midweek day off work and it turned out to be quite sunny and warm, I…
Tidying up, taking down the PoppaDomes SteveDecember 3, 2023December 2, 2023 They served us well this year, I never knew they even existed until we got them. I was…
Poo on the plot SteveDecember 2, 2023 According to the weather, today will be the last day of the year when it won’t be wet,…
Weekly Harvest – Nov 23 SteveNovember 30, 2023January 6, 2024 November 2023 . 2023 B/F £271.42 IN OUT courgette – 0.196g £0.59 turnip – 467g £1.87 swede –…
Clearing up leaves SteveNovember 26, 2023 The last time I was at the plot, there were leaves on the trees and everything was looking…
Winter time, winter veg SteveNovember 5, 2023November 5, 2023 I have not been to the plot for nearly a month, a mixture of being busy and bad…
Weekly Harvest 31st Oct 23 SteveOctober 31, 2023 31st October 2023 A month of hot sunny days and then dark rainy days… I was able to…
Beetroot and Butternut remaining SteveOctober 9, 2023October 8, 2023 Tidying the garden, starting with cutting the grass which after all the dry and warm weather had become…
Digging up the paths SteveOctober 8, 2023 Not me, the local wildlife…. We get this every so often where upon arriving I find a lot…
Turnip harvest means it’s Autumn SteveOctober 1, 2023 I’m glad I decided to grow turnips this year as I really fancied a meal with turnips, maybe…
Weekly Harvest 30th Sept 23 SteveSeptember 30, 2023September 30, 2023 30th September 2023 The last of the tomatoes, another good 1kg+ and that’s it all done for the…
Tidying the garden for the winter SteveSeptember 29, 2023September 26, 2023 This time last week it was super hot and sunny, a bit of an extension to a summer…
Quick tidy up SteveSeptember 28, 2023September 24, 2023 A short afternoon visit, after all the wind and rain during the week some fresh air was needed…
The garden in the shade SteveSeptember 17, 2023 Not fully in the shade but give it a couple of weeks and that will be it until…
Tomatoes out – Onions in SteveSeptember 17, 2023September 17, 2023 I received an email the other week from the allotment committee telling us that we must all destroy…
Weekly Harvest 13th Sept 23 SteveSeptember 13, 2023 13th September 2023 Mostly tomatoes, the late hot weather has allowed them to ripen and we have been…
Cutting grass and thinking it’s too hot SteveSeptember 11, 2023 Three days where the temperature has reached 25c which makes it a heatwave. That is where we have…
Weekly Harvest 5th Sept 23 SteveSeptember 5, 2023 5th September 2023 I remember the year that we had so many cucumbers that I was giving them…
Super sunny morning at the plot SteveSeptember 3, 2023 It was still all a bit misty when I arrived early in the morning and a bit cold.…
Pots in the Garden SteveSeptember 3, 2023 We were given a present of a voucher for the garden centre and so decided to redo the…
Weekly Harvest 29th Aug 23 SteveAugust 29, 2023 29th August 2023 We missed out on a lot of raspberries that came and went while we were…
Climbing trees, making netting SteveAugust 28, 2023 It seems like ages since I have gone to the plot first thing in the morning and spent…
Tomatoes in the garden SteveAugust 26, 2023August 24, 2023 While those on the plot have suffered from the wind and the rain throughout the summer (I expect…
Watching things grow at the plot SteveAugust 25, 2023August 24, 2023 The middle of summer and while there is plenty to be done on the plot, at the same…
Weekly Harvest 24th Aug 23 SteveAugust 24, 2023 24th August 2023 The good news has been the massive harvest of french and runner beans. The less…
Weekly Harvests 13th Aug 23 SteveAugust 13, 2023 13th August 2023 There are some harvests we did a while ago but have since been undercover drying,…
More sun, more weeding SteveAugust 7, 2023August 6, 2023 I also built a bit more of the plot edging using the old decking from the garden, a…
In the garden, beans still standing SteveAugust 6, 2023August 5, 2023 A bit of a surprise with all the wind we have had this week. The beans have taken…
A break in the rain for some weeding SteveAugust 5, 2023 I quickly went up to the allotment in the evening when it was neither windy, rainy, or cold.…
Weekly Harvest 30th Jul 23 SteveJuly 30, 2023 30th July 2023 Now all the peas have been picked it’s time for the french beans. Two massive…
The windy day of potatoes – and sprouts SteveJuly 29, 2023 A rare sunny and dry day, although windy, I thought we’d better dig up the potatoes. This was…
An evening of potatoes and swedes SteveJuly 21, 2023July 19, 2023 At long last I got to plant out the swedes, so far this year has been mostly catching…
Garden Planting SteveJuly 20, 2023July 19, 2023 After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…