Compost for the garden
Each year I am amazed buy how low the level gets in the raised beds. It starts at…
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Digging the remaining parsnips
Weather has not been good for weeks but I finally ventured up to the plot today to dig…
Monthly Harvest Jan 25
January 2025 A new year and not a lot going on at the plot, not much to harvest…
Finally a sunny day
It’s either been raining, or windy, or raining and windy… today was the first day for a while…
New Year Plot Visit
A cold freezing day but the sun had melted most of the ice by mid morning, although the…
Monthly harvest Nov 24
November 2024 Not much going on at the moment, strong wind and rain for most if the month.…
Winter poo and more leaves
The other day I found a new supply of rotted down horse manure, we were out for a…
A Sea of Leaves
You can on longer deny that autumn is here and winter is coming quickly when you see your…
Tidying up the garden – taking down beans
We stopped picking runner beans last month as we just could not keep up with them. We eat…
Monthly Harvest – Oct 24
October 2024 Big outgoings as it was time to pay for another year of the plot, now £70…
Pumpkins out, garlic in
A couple of warm sunny autumn days allowed me to go to the plot during the day and…
Picking pumpkins
Time to start tidying up and prepping things. I pulled the last lot of carrots which got us…
Monthly Harvest – Sept 24
September 2024 Within the garden I’m currently only able to record the temperature which shows no records were…
Autumn suddenly arrives
You visit the plot and it feels just like summer, if not a bit cooler, you cling onto…
Monthly Harvest – August 24
August 2024 It certainly felt like August and it seemed autumn had come early during the second half…
Last of the garden carrots
We have had the best year for carrots in the garden, something we normally struggle with. We have…
Picking dried beans
The borlotti plants on the plot have all died back so it was time to pick off the…
Tomatoes and Beans
I am pretty pleased with the tomatoes, with new ones turning red each day and ready for picking.…
Covering Swedes a Bit More
I covered the swedes last week in order to keep the birds off but it turns out it…
Pumpkins and tomatoes
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
Garden sweetcorn
We have finally picked our first lot of sweetcorn cobs which has worked out really well in the…
Autumn already?
It certainly feels like it, shorter evenings and colder mornings. Have we eaten breakfast in the garden for…
Just need to cut the grass
The garden, I think, is looking really good and I pretty pleased with that we have done, I…
The day of the potatoes
A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…
Sweetcorn and tomatoes in the garden
I have high hopes for our tomatoes and sweetcorn currently growing in the garden. I’ve been removing leaves…
About time I did some weeding
Because in previous years I used to always go up to the plot super early in the morning…
Monthly Harvest July 24
July 2024 The good news is that we have just got hold of a rain meter, so once…
Onions Out, Purple Sprouting In
It was forecast to be a wet week with super hot days in-between, I’d been waiting for a…
The Corn Jungle
Every day, the sweetcorn plants grow taller and we have started to see corn cobs growing on the…
Quick visits to the plot
The one day I had time to be at the plot the weather decided to modal mid winter…
Just the garden growing…
The peas came out this weekend, they finished a couple of weeks ago but some were still keeping…
Rain and warmth in the garden
Rain in the summer is annoying but if it’s warm too then plants will grow and sometimes very…
Courgettes and swedes
We have started to puck courgettes and with all the wet weather I am expecting them to grow…
Monthly Harvest June 24
June 2024 June turned into the hottest month of the year and the hottest June since 2021 in…
New Shed
Back in 2022 we put up a shed at another plot, it was time for us to take…
Suddenly Summer
Lots of watering other the last week leaving the plot with a mixture of over wintered plants coming…
Not so windy in the garden
A super windy weekend which meant it wasn’t the best to spend a lot of time at the…
Windy visit
Super windy with cold and rain yesterday and sun with blue skies today. I was surprised to see…
Beans plant out, strawberries picked
I cut the grass paths between plots, and I built a bit more of the decking edging that…
Monthly harvest – May 24
May 2024 The final leeks pulled, a mix of mostly small leeks but much better than the nearly…
Radish everywhere!
We are on a mission to eat as many radish as possible as the garden keeps providing enough…
Planting out squash & strawberry war victory
A mixed weather forecast of warm sunny and rainy days for the next week which made me think…
Monthly Harvest – April 24
April 2024 After last year where we harvested next to no leeks, disappointing from one of our “big…
Garden beds filling up
Sunny early morning and so planted out: I sowed some more beetroot as the current line of plants…
Planting out beans and tomatoes
I sowed runner beans undercover last weekend and this weekend they were ready to plant out. This year…
The battle of the weeds
A mix of warm weather and rain meant the plot, and in fact the whole allotment site, had…
The battle of the peas
A mid week visit on the way home from work, it was sunny and warm during the day…
Sunny day in the garden
A bank holiday weekend started off sunny and I had a long list of plants that needed planting…
Netting for strawberries
I started this the other week, creating a frame and netting for the strawberries. The idea here is…
Evening visit, banking up potatoes
No longer working for home, for now, means I can’t finish work and be on the plot before…