Weekly Harvest Feb 24
February 2024 Not much going on at the moment, mostly wind and rain. I did pop up to…
Author: Steve
Cold and Wet
There was a brief bit of early morning sun and blue sky which made me think I could…
Chilli seedlings
Not much has happened on the plot for weeks because it’s been constantly raining all month. However, at…
Frozen broad beans
For the last couple of years we have not had any frost or sub-zero temperatures. We got a…
Weekly Harvest 14th Jan 24
14th January 2024 I wasn’t sure what to expect from the parsnips as they had struggled all year.…
New year – new neighbour
2024 has (still) not given us flying cars but it has given us lots of rain and high…
A sunny day – prepping a bed
I had a midweek day off work and it turned out to be quite sunny and warm, I…
Tidying up, taking down the PoppaDomes
They served us well this year, I never knew they even existed until we got them. I was…
Poo on the plot
According to the weather, today will be the last day of the year when it won’t be wet,…
Weekly Harvest – Nov 23
November 2023 . 2023 B/F £271.42 IN OUT courgette – 0.196g £0.59 turnip – 467g £1.87 swede –…
Clearing up leaves
The last time I was at the plot, there were leaves on the trees and everything was looking…
Winter time, winter veg
I have not been to the plot for nearly a month, a mixture of being busy and bad…
Weekly Harvest 31st Oct 23
31st October 2023 A month of hot sunny days and then dark rainy days… I was able to…
Beetroot and Butternut remaining
Tidying the garden, starting with cutting the grass which after all the dry and warm weather had become…
Digging up the paths
Not me, the local wildlife…. We get this every so often where upon arriving I find a lot…
Turnip harvest means it’s Autumn
I’m glad I decided to grow turnips this year as I really fancied a meal with turnips, maybe…
Weekly Harvest 30th Sept 23
30th September 2023 The last of the tomatoes, another good 1kg+ and that’s it all done for the…
Tidying the garden for the winter
This time last week it was super hot and sunny, a bit of an extension to a summer…
Quick tidy up
A short afternoon visit, after all the wind and rain during the week some fresh air was needed…
The garden in the shade
Not fully in the shade but give it a couple of weeks and that will be it until…
Tomatoes out – Onions in
I received an email the other week from the allotment committee telling us that we must all destroy…
Weekly Harvest 13th Sept 23
13th September 2023 Mostly tomatoes, the late hot weather has allowed them to ripen and we have been…
Cutting grass and thinking it’s too hot
Three days where the temperature has reached 25c which makes it a heatwave. That is where we have…
Weekly Harvest 5th Sept 23
5th September 2023 I remember the year that we had so many cucumbers that I was giving them…
Super sunny morning at the plot
It was still all a bit misty when I arrived early in the morning and a bit cold.…
Pots in the Garden
We were given a present of a voucher for the garden centre and so decided to redo the…
Weekly Harvest 29th Aug 23
29th August 2023 We missed out on a lot of raspberries that came and went while we were…
Climbing trees, making netting
It seems like ages since I have gone to the plot first thing in the morning and spent…
Tomatoes in the garden
While those on the plot have suffered from the wind and the rain throughout the summer (I expect…
Watching things grow at the plot
The middle of summer and while there is plenty to be done on the plot, at the same…
Weekly Harvest 24th Aug 23
24th August 2023 The good news has been the massive harvest of french and runner beans. The less…
Weekly Harvests 13th Aug 23
13th August 2023 There are some harvests we did a while ago but have since been undercover drying,…
More sun, more weeding
I also built a bit more of the plot edging using the old decking from the garden, a…
In the garden, beans still standing
A bit of a surprise with all the wind we have had this week. The beans have taken…
A break in the rain for some weeding
I quickly went up to the allotment in the evening when it was neither windy, rainy, or cold.…
Weekly Harvest 30th Jul 23
30th July 2023 Now all the peas have been picked it’s time for the french beans. Two massive…
The windy day of potatoes – and sprouts
A rare sunny and dry day, although windy, I thought we’d better dig up the potatoes. This was…
An evening of potatoes and swedes
At long last I got to plant out the swedes, so far this year has been mostly catching…
Garden Planting
After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…
Weekly Harvest 19th July 23
19th July 2023 We started to pull spring onions right up until the french beans started to cover…
Garden Paving – Phase3 completion
I find that if you break up projects in ‘phases’ then it hides the fact that it has…
Lots of weeding, planting out cucumbers
An afternoon of weeding where I filled two buckets full of bindweed, I also tied up the tomatoes…
Weekly Harvest 8th July 23
8th July 2023 Another month has gone by without talking about harvests…. although I have been logging them…
Raining in the garden
It’s been super hot these last days, temperatures have not gone below 20c for a couple of days.…
The night of the peas and courgettes
I had not been to the plot for over a week, the weather had been a mix of…
Onions out, Butternut Squash in
Wind and rain and wind, and more wind…. In the end I thought I need to get the…
Garlic and tomatoes
Suddenly it was mid year, longest day, time for the garlic to be pulled up. Until a week…
Weekly Harvest 20th June 23
20th June 2023 Too many radish all appearing at the same time and lots going to seed, it’s…
Letting the Beans Out
One bed is protected by the Popadomes, the other is covered in green netting. The steps needed to…
Wires for the Raspberries
On my todo list I have “wire up raspberries” which is a reminder to put in place some…