Harvests from the garden
The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Author: Steve
Leeks and netting
Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
Weekly Harvest 14th July 20
14th July 2020 The last of the big harvest items, onions. The second lot of onions from the…
Evening watering and currants
For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Wintery evening of onions
Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Weekly Harvest 7th July 20
7th July 2020 A welcome return to french beans, we had success with these in our first year…
Problem with wind…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Weekly Harvest 30th June 20
30th June 2020 The week of fruit and onions. Super pleased with the over wintered onions which were…
Day of the currants and the poo
Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…
Night of the Potatoes
Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
Weekly Harvest 23rd June 20
23rd June 2020 The week of the raspberries, every visit included a raspberry picking session. We have now…
Tidying
A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…
Rain – Sun – Fruit
A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Weekly Harvest 16th June 20
16th June 2020 The start of the “big three” harvests with pulling of the garlic (the other two…
Cutting down trees
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
Weekly Harvest 9th June 20
9th June 2020 No radish, maybe next week the long white icicle ones might be ready. We have…
Bye celeriac, hello tomatoes
They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
Weekly Harvest 2nd June 20
2nd June 2020 It’s not yet time to pull the garlic, although it does look like I could…
An early morning
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
Weekly Harvest 26th May 20
26th May 2020 We are pulling a lot of radish each day at the moment, the first time…
Planting sprouts
It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
Weekly Harvest 19th May 20
19th May 2020 The advantage of having things growing at home is starting to pay off with lunch…
Cutting back
A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
Weekly Harvest 12th May 20
12th May 2020 Radish time. These were probably ready a week ago but we had no need to…
Eating radish
The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
Weekly Harvest 5th May 20
5th May 2020 I was pleased to be picking the first lot of broad beans for this year,…
Back to the Plot – for now
Let us not get over excited, all the talk by the media of relaxing lock down (have they…
French beans and parsnips
In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…
Obsessed with Parsnips!
All this staying at home, I’m starting to be obsessive about parsnips! Last year was a first try…
Growing at home
I have various in seed trays indoors: chillies – late to sow this year, probably ready to put…
Venturing Out into the Wild
Three weeks, or is it four weeks, it might even be five weeks – it seems like a…
Weekly Harvest 21st April 20
21st April 2020 A quiet month for harvest not too affected by the lock down. Expenses however have…
Seedlings and peas
It had rained most of yesterday and bits during the night, the morning was not looking too promising…
Parsnips, carrots,a lot of seeds – and compost
It shows just how much we have done on the allotment with the soil, lots of organic matter…
Bringing things closer to home
We had planned to do something with the lawn this year, maybe a bit of paving to put…
Weekly Harvest 31st March 20
31st March 2020 People seem to have decided that the allotment is a safe place that no virus…
Radish in a Pot
It is sunny and inviting outside, the clocks have changed, it seems an ideal morning to look at…
A Dash for the Leeks
I think of it as you “can” go to the allotment, but I think “should” you? I also…
Potatoes and Onions
We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…
Weekly Harvest 17th March 20
17th March 2020 I couldn’t work out what the new green shoots that had appeared over the week…
Getting things ready
With all the bad weather since Christmas it is hard to believe it is time to start doing…
Larger Strawberries…
I had a bit of a list to work through, it was the first non-cold, non-raining morning for…
2019 – The Stats
Everyone likes spreadsheets and numbers, here is 2019 in numbers… These figures are from the year’s worth of…
Weekly Harvest 3rd March 20
3rd March 2020 Just a week of leeks, no photo but over 1kg of leeks which was a…
Weekly Harvest 18th Feb 20
18th February 2020 A small break in the bad weather gave me a chance to do a harvest.…
Sprouts, Swedes and Woodchip
Due to commitments and weather I have not been to the plot for a number of weeks. A…
The hop plant
Just over five years ago I was given a “grow your own beer” gift as a present, I…
Weekly Harvest 28th Jan 20
28st January 2020 No work on the allotment this week apart from a walk to pick bits for…
Weekly Harvest 21st Jan 20
21st January 2020 The cold day of the parsnips, I pulled up the remaining ones in the ground…
Parsnips, Poo, and Frost
January can be pretty brutal when it wants to be, while at the same time it can be…