Weekly Harvest 20th August 2019
20th August After the week of the cucumbers… they came back for another week – I’ve been giving…
Author: Steve
Swedes and potatoes
More wind, more rain means the runner beans have gone the same way as they did last year,…
Wind and Rain Damage?
There appears to actually be none apart from a snapped bean pole. After the load of wind and…
Weekly Harvest 13th August 2019
13th August Last visit I picked all the cucumbers I could see, today there were 13 new ones…
Pathways and weeding
It was interesting to see if there had been any damage at the plot following two days of…
Weekly Harvest 30th July 2019
30th July Cucumbers all over the place, each time we visit there is a load more and it…
Super Hot
The night time temperature was mid 20c and by the morning it was back up to 30. It…
Weekly Harvest 23th July 2019
23th July I’ve been watching the onions slowly dying back over the last month and each time thinking…
Night of the Onions
An evening visit with Tom to pull all the onions now they had died back. This included the…
Weekly Harvest 16th July 2019
16th July I wasn’t sure if the peas were ready last week, I was pretty sure they were…
Night of the Peas
After the attack of the little black beetles the other month, the remaining carrots have survived under the…
Weekly Harvest 9th July 2019
9th July The week of the potatoes, we dug them all up, dried them off, and now they…
Potatoes
We dug up the first half last week, this week we were late in the evening digging up…
Weekly Harvest 2nd July 2019
2nd July The over winter onions were not planned, someone gave them to us late in the season…
Weekend of Fruit
The hot weather has helped with the soft fruit, which I had planned to pick a load off…
Weekly Harvest 25th June
25th June The week of the strawberries, nearly 1kg of them and a lot of them didn’t make…
Garlic and rain than lots of sun
All a bit behind, I’ve had sprout and calabrese plants under cover in pots really wanting to be…
18th June 2019
18th June Our first lot of potatoes and constant supply of strawberries and broad beans. I won’t forget…
Wind, Rain, Slugs, Flea Beetles?
We had only been away for a week but since then we had gone through various extreme seasons,…
Weekly Harvest 11th June 2019
11th June Not much harvested due to going away, but we have had a full punnet of strawberries…
Weekly Harvest 4th June 19
4th June It’s about time we mentioned the chilies growing at home, we have been picking them this…
Suddenly… everything needed planting
An attempt to empty the pots and plant out anything that looked like it would rather be in…
28th May 2019
28th May So many large broad bean pods to pick, our first lot of strawberries, large and full…
Celeriac and strawberries
Mid week afternoon visit and surprised how dry and needing a watering everything was. I gave everything a…
21st May 2019
21st May Over wintered broad beans filling out and now getting large beans from pickings. Rhubarb is hold…
Planting Out
A super sunny weekend which promised likewise for the weekend but turned out not to be. That was…
14th May 2019
14th May The last lot of the March sown radish, which had grown a bit large over the…
Hailstones and sun
I thought it wise to wait until the afternoon when it said it would stop looking so miserable…
7th May 2019
7th May Not much, just radish and rhubarb – busy eating leeks and sprouts from the freezer. B/F…
Stopping Birds
Last year we had two gooseberries before the birds found them and overnight stripped the bushes of everything,…
30th April 2019
22nd April The last of the leeks, pulled up the remaining lot. The first radish! Seed compost that…
Hannah and leeks
The day before, I left (storm) Hannah alone at the plot while I transplanted seedlings into larger pots.…
22nd April 2019
22nd April B/F £6.46 IN OUT Rhubarb – 312g £1.19 Leeks – 192g £0.48 Chard – 181g £0.84…
Banking up potatoes
A super early start because it was forecast to be super hot all day, and because I thought…
Sow Sow Sow
It’s it not moving then I sowed it, if it wasn’t moving fast enough then I probably had…
14th April 2019
14th April B/F £2.69 IN OUT Rhubarb – 548g £2.74 Leeks – 281g £0.70 Chard – 103g £0.33…
Broad beans and radish
After sowing and putting outside undercover, one lot in the small plastic greenhouse and the other round the…
6th April 2019
6th April B/F -£2.39 IN OUT Rhubarb – 565g £3.89 Leeks – 317g £0.79 Chard – 127g £0.40…
30th March 2019
30th March B/F £0.00 IN OUT Rhubarb – 473g £1.30 Leeks – 287g £0.72 Seeds £0.99 Seeds £3.42…
Seeds
Not much on the plot but lots of seed sowing at home, including: turnips calabrese peas cabbage Also…
Potatoes, onions and sowing seed
An early morning planting onions and potatoes, mixed with a bit of weeding. I put in millions of…
Just Pottering
There was no need to go to the plot, apart from to pull up some leeks as we…
Early Sowing 2019
I planted chili seeds last week and today they had come up and ready to be moved from…
Mulching Gooseberries
A sunny winters day with blue skies…. I didn’t have much need to go to the allotment but…
2018 – The Good & the Bad
A lot of different to last time when we had an allotment, in 2001 we took on a…
Sprouts and Wind…
While sunny, it was windy and the forecast was that it was going to get worse throughout the…
Put off for long enough
The idea of digging up all the raspberries, deep weeding, replanting raspberries through cardboard and mulch…. I’ve been…
Changed Plans
The idea this morning was to dig up all the raspberry canes, cover with cardboard and manure, then…
Just collecting bits for tea..
Yesterday I picked up 15 bags of manure which I hope to spread over the remainder of the…
A bit more garlic
We succeeded in growing garlic last year and we used each bulb we dug up, so going from…