2019 Summary
A quick month-by-month summary of 2019…. January planted more garlic, possibly a bit late as quite a lot…
Author: Steve
Weekly Harvest 5th Jan 2020
5th January 2020 The first expense for a while in the shape of bags of spent mushroom compost.…
Broad Beans Take Two
Sowed six direct in the ground and they all came up, unfortunately mice found them and nibbled off…
Weekly Harvest 31st Dec 2019
31st December 2019 Just bringing back ingredients for soup for later on in the day… I’ve now nearly…
Weekly Harvest 24th Dec 2019
24th December 2019 A family visit to the plot to fetch veg for Christmas day. The highlights were…
Planting (more) Garlic
Traditionally on the shortest day of the year to be pulled on the longest. I planted in November…
Chopping Trees
Not quite, chopping branches off of trees instead, ones that come over from the field and shadow the…
Weekly Harvest 10th Dec 2019
10th December 2019 It is all about leeks and sprouts, and parsnips. I found some more coloured carrots…
Unexpected moving chairs
A “quick visit” to get some parsnips and things, turned out to be a couple of hours instead.…
Weekly Harvest 3rd Dec 2019
3rd December 2019 It’s all about quick visits in the cold, rain, and mud. Winter is nearly here…
Sprouts and Potatoes
A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…
Weekly Harvest 26th Nov 19
26th November 2019 A quick visit to collect food for tea, which meant taking home the first lot…
19th November 2019
19th November 2019 Money wise there is a big drop suddenly in November, but it is more because…
Fresh Poo
I picked up a number of bags of what looked like very fresh manure that has been delivered…
Weekly Harvest 12th Nov 2019
12th November 2019 Just picking vegetables for tea and I came home with a nice long parsnip and…
Fires and cabbages
Just quickly popping up to get some bits for tea, and how about burning some of the wood…
Weekly Harvest 5th Nov 2019
5th November 2019 A quick visit to tidy up and bring home carrots and some ‘leaves’ for tea.…
Broad beans and parsnips
In less than a week we have broad beans! Not quite ready to pick, infact only just showing…
Weekly Harvest 29th Oct 2019
29th October 2019 The first ever pulling of a celeriac plant, and eating afterwards. The verdict is a…
Broad beans and cold weather
The main lot of winter planting is complete now with the planting of broad beans (Aquadulce Claudia). I’ve…
Weekly Harvest 17th Oct 2019
17th October 2019 The week of the green tomatoes, this must be the last pickings of tomatoes. I’ve…
Planting Garlic
I have normally waited until just before Christmas to plant garlic and left it for six months. This…
Weekly Harvest 8th October 2019
8th October 2019 Over 1kg of tomatoes, stripping the plants of all I could find (leaving one or…
Onions and Mushrooms
We use a lot of onions and so I thought I would have a go at putting in…
Weekly Harvest 1st Oct 19
1st October 2019 No visit to the allotment this week, but I did manage to pick some tomatoes…
Weekly Harvest 24th Sept 2019
24th September There is noticeably a lot less to pick each week now, although tomatoes have liked the…
Soil and no more cucumbers
A random browse on Freegle and I noticed someone down the road from us was giving away a…
Weekly Harvest 17th September 2019
17th September We have run out of new cucumbers meaning tomatoes have replaced them for the big crop…
Slowing down
Normally I spend a good hour weeding each week but today it was done in just five minutes,…
Weekly Harvest 10th Sept 2019
10th September . Lots of beetroot with the idea that I will pickle some of them as currently…
Tidying up – autumn is coming
On Thursday you could still convince yourself it was summer, on Friday you knew that autumn would soon…
Weekly Harvest 3rd Sept 2019
3rd September Not much this week as we have been away, but I knew there would be a…
Weekly Harvest 27th Aug 2019
27th August Finally we have had tomatoes, all it needed was some actual warm and sunny days and…
Tomatoes and Paths
They were saying it was going to be a really hot and sunny bank holiday weekend and so…
Weekly Harvest 20th August 2019
20th August After the week of the cucumbers… they came back for another week – I’ve been giving…
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…