
Weekly Harvest 12th Jan 21
12th January 2021 Another bite size swede which once again was just the right size for a meal…
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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…
13th October 2020 October is the most expensive month being the time to pay the yearly plot fees.…
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
We have been watching for months, the small butternut squash fruits slowly growing… Some even managed to get…
29th September 2020 A bit of a surprise from the large carrots from the plot, both normal orange…
No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…
I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…
22nd September 2020 Cucamelons and tomatoes following a bit of a warm and sunny week. It’ a race…
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
15th September 2020 We are pacing ourselves with white cabbage having picked one a couple of weeks ago…
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
8th September 2020 Rather lacking on harvest photos as we just pick them as needed from the garden…
After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…
There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…
1st September 2020 It feels cold these days and a warm chicken casserole means we need autumn vegetables…
Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…
It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…
25th August 2020 We found then left over under the stairs, we planted them, we watched them grow…
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
18th August 2020 We have waited long enough for cucamelons, they have been growing very slowly for months…
11th August 2020 This year it seems like smaller harvests, but then this year we have things growing…
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
4th August 2020 I had another go at blackberry picking and returned with loads once again. that’s probably…