Cutting bushes, planting out
Finally got round to cutting the bushes back to shape and trimming/hacking the tree. The off cuts I…
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Strawberry netting and potatoes
A had a chance afternoon not at work during the week and so took the opportunity to spend…
Weekly Harvest March 2024
March 2024 A month of spending money, on seed potatoes (normal) and three new gooseberry bushes (a one…
Prepping for Courgettes
Cloudy early morning which soon turned to warm sun. I cycled up to the plot as the main…
Planting out onions
It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
Parsnips in the wind
Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
Potatoes planted
So far with Easter weather, promised to be windy and unsettled, has turned out to be warm with…
First sowing in the garden for 2024
Easter weekend, early this year at the end of March. So far this year it has been mostly…
Onions planted – beds prepped
Forecast for rain but when I woke up it was blue sky and sunny. I wasn’t planning anything…
Shop compost for the garden beds
We make compost at home but there is not enough waste to make a lot of it, so…
Enough home made compost to go around
After a bit of a rainy week and next week looking like much the same, Saturday started off…
More beans and no fruit cage
It must be the first day of the year where it has been cold but sunny, clear blue…
Weekly Harvest Feb 24
February 2024 Not much going on at the moment, mostly wind and rain. I did pop up to…
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…