First day of no rain
Been waiting for weeks to go back and cover the plot in the plastic sheeting we bought before…
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Planting Garlic
The day started with misty drizzle and certainly not the type of weather for going to the allotment,…
First bit of digging
We came armed with our new tools, at £29.99 this seemed like a great deal from Argos, and I…
Compost bins
The TODO list grows each day. I’ve taken the tip of “little and often” and so the only…
Plot 110 – Day1
The aim for today was to spend a couple of hours to have a first real look at…
Plot 110
It has been a while…. from sunflowers to square foot gardening… a new house.. an allotment. Over the…
The Path Plods On
I thought it would take just a couple of days to get the path finished once I had…
Spring has sprung!
I know spring does not start until the 20th March, but we can forgive a day or two…. …
We start the path…
With the waste wood off Freecycle we started laying the new wooden path. Taking up the paving I…
Free wood leads to new project
I plan to make a start on this over the weekend. The other week we managed to pick…
Slow slow start to 2011
Lots of promise for 2011 but yet any to be lived out. So far work in the garden…
Square Foot Garden in the Snow
Not a lot going in here, infact the winter had seen the beds being used as a cat…
Square Foot Garden in the Snow
Not a lot going in here, infact the winter had seen the beds being used as a cat…
Wet and Damp – and some Fails
It has been very wet and damp these last weeks and now the sun is much lower during…
Spooky Spiders
September means it is spider month, in the garden and in the house you bump into spiders all…
Late Broad Beans
I never used to like broad beans, but now I think they are great both with skins on…
Late Peas Flowering
These late peas are now flowering and so with hope might get one or two pods out of…
Red Onion Harvest
Not the biggest onions in the world, but they were planted pretty late. All the same though, these…
September 2010
Probably the first and last chance to cut the grass before winter sets in. By this time only…
Tomatoes and Onions
We currently have a daily picking of small cherry tomatoes which has been the best we have ever…
Garage Doors Finally Painted
All the constant August rain has been my fault. At the beginning of the month we started work…
Turnips all in a row
Very gloomy weather that seemed to hang over just our street which has given a wet drizzly winters…
Let’s see where we are with things…
I was thinking, after a fantastic two months of solid sunshine we seem to have hit Autumn a…
How are the winter seedlings doing?
After a lot of rain the winter seedlings are popping up all over the place. The turnips have…
Courgette Flowers -but no courgettes yet
We have two plants, one taking up four squares in the beds and the other on its own…
Blackberry Picking
Around the back of the house we have a small track which runs along the back of everyone’s…
OK to Pod Peas – But Never To Eat
Jack loves podding peas, but even at the mention of eating one and he will look at you…
Tell the Cats to Keep Off
Let us see how long this lasts before the cats dig it all up…..
Work starts on garage door
You get used to looking at the same thing every day and it is only when you look…
Broad Beans and Onions
I have never tried growing during the winter period, so thought now would be a good time while…
Spring Onion Cats!
I took good precautions when starting out with the Square Foot Garden as I knew normally a cat…
Sweetcorn tassels, red tomatoes and turnip seedlings
The sweetcorn over the months has grown and grown and I was wondering if it was ever going…
Christmas Potatoes Planted
We did this last year using old supermarket potatoes we found in the back of the cupboard, and…
Eating French Beans
We have taken a couple of pickings of our french beans this week. We have grown runner beans…
We Have Rain!
After two months of sun sun sun, we have rain rain rain! The weather suggests drizzle for the…
Square Foot Garden July 2010 Snapshot
This is all about to change as we get ready to plant some of the autumn and winter…
Carrot Trouble
I notice we have carrot problems which is a shame as we have just started pulling them although…
Beans, Peas, and the attack of the Tomatoes
Despite the black fly which seems to be covering our garden like a blanket, these french beans are…
Eating Carrots
We have had plenty of radish and lettuce from the square foot garden, but both of those get…
Potato Harvest for 2010
These were early potatoes but we planted them a month late and so it made sense that we…
Training Passion Flower
It has taken a couple of years to get to this stage, but this year the passion flower…
Blackfly on the courgettes
I was pleased to see loads of new flowers appearing on the courgettes, but less so of all…
A couple of days of wind and rain
After a good month of blue skies, hot weather and sun sun sun… we had two or three…
Going to Seed?
We have had a very hot July so far which has meant watering first thing in the morning…
I spot a tomato
I noticed a lot of flowers but then a closer inspection meant I spotted one baby tomato! The…
Supports
I did plan to do the supports like the book suggests, but time took over and after thinking…
Decking Renewed
Due to this and that, I never treated the decking with anything last year, something which is normally…
Pulling out grass
A long long term project all this, to tart up the side at the front. It started a…
More Flowers
It seems amazing sometimes that from a bare garden in the middle of winter all this is hiding…
Flowers flowers flowers
The whole garden is full of daisies, big ones, small ones, ones yet to appear!