
Planting out onions
It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
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It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
So far with Easter weather, promised to be windy and unsettled, has turned out to be warm with…
Easter weekend, early this year at the end of March. So far this year it has been mostly…
Forecast for rain but when I woke up it was blue sky and sunny. I wasn’t planning anything…
We make compost at home but there is not enough waste to make a lot of it, so…
After a bit of a rainy week and next week looking like much the same, Saturday started off…
It must be the first day of the year where it has been cold but sunny, clear blue…
February 2024 Not much going on at the moment, mostly wind and rain. I did pop up to…
There was a brief bit of early morning sun and blue sky which made me think I could…
Not much has happened on the plot for weeks because it’s been constantly raining all month. However, at…
For the last couple of years we have not had any frost or sub-zero temperatures. We got a…
14th January 2024 I wasn’t sure what to expect from the parsnips as they had struggled all year.…
2024 has (still) not given us flying cars but it has given us lots of rain and high…
I had a midweek day off work and it turned out to be quite sunny and warm, I…
They served us well this year, I never knew they even existed until we got them. I was…
According to the weather, today will be the last day of the year when it won’t be wet,…
November 2023 . 2023 B/F £271.42 IN OUT courgette – 0.196g £0.59 turnip – 467g £1.87 swede –…
The last time I was at the plot, there were leaves on the trees and everything was looking…
I have not been to the plot for nearly a month, a mixture of being busy and bad…
31st October 2023 A month of hot sunny days and then dark rainy days… I was able to…
Tidying the garden, starting with cutting the grass which after all the dry and warm weather had become…
Not me, the local wildlife…. We get this every so often where upon arriving I find a lot…
I’m glad I decided to grow turnips this year as I really fancied a meal with turnips, maybe…
30th September 2023 The last of the tomatoes, another good 1kg+ and that’s it all done for the…
This time last week it was super hot and sunny, a bit of an extension to a summer…
A short afternoon visit, after all the wind and rain during the week some fresh air was needed…
Not fully in the shade but give it a couple of weeks and that will be it until…
I received an email the other week from the allotment committee telling us that we must all destroy…
13th September 2023 Mostly tomatoes, the late hot weather has allowed them to ripen and we have been…
Three days where the temperature has reached 25c which makes it a heatwave. That is where we have…
5th September 2023 I remember the year that we had so many cucumbers that I was giving them…
It was still all a bit misty when I arrived early in the morning and a bit cold.…
We were given a present of a voucher for the garden centre and so decided to redo the…
29th August 2023 We missed out on a lot of raspberries that came and went while we were…
It seems like ages since I have gone to the plot first thing in the morning and spent…
While those on the plot have suffered from the wind and the rain throughout the summer (I expect…
The middle of summer and while there is plenty to be done on the plot, at the same…
24th August 2023 The good news has been the massive harvest of french and runner beans. The less…
13th August 2023 There are some harvests we did a while ago but have since been undercover drying,…
I also built a bit more of the plot edging using the old decking from the garden, a…
A bit of a surprise with all the wind we have had this week. The beans have taken…
I quickly went up to the allotment in the evening when it was neither windy, rainy, or cold.…
30th July 2023 Now all the peas have been picked it’s time for the french beans. Two massive…
A rare sunny and dry day, although windy, I thought we’d better dig up the potatoes. This was…
At long last I got to plant out the swedes, so far this year has been mostly catching…
After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…
19th July 2023 We started to pull spring onions right up until the french beans started to cover…
I find that if you break up projects in ‘phases’ then it hides the fact that it has…
An afternoon of weeding where I filled two buckets full of bindweed, I also tied up the tomatoes…