2022 Summary SteveDecember 31, 2022 A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…
Weekly Harvest 28th Dec 22 SteveDecember 28, 2022 28th December 2022 This could be the last harvest of 2022, and not much harvested these last couple…
Getting Wet SteveDecember 22, 2022 I sometimes have so much time off around Christmas but the days are too short or the days…
Frost and Poo SteveDecember 9, 2022 A day off work and the first frost of the winter. I don’t think we have had frost…
Weekly Harvest 29th Nov 22 SteveNovember 29, 2022 29th November 2022 I grew the beetroot on the plot just to fill up space, we already had…
Suddenly… I get to the Plot SteveNovember 27, 2022November 27, 2022 One minute it was autumn, the next it was full blown biblical winter. Dark skies, rain, wind, floods…
Weekly Harvest 23rd Nov 22 SteveNovember 23, 2022 23rd November 2022 It’s mostly rain and windy, heavy rain and really strong wind… for nearly a month…
Cutting Down Field Beans SteveNovember 13, 2022 With bad weather and other commitments getting in the way, I had my first visit the plot for…
Weekly Harvest 18th Oct 22 SteveOctober 18, 2022 18th October 2022 It’s been a heavy week, everything is measured in kilos. The beetroot is past it’s…
Weekly Harvest 13th Oct 22 SteveOctober 13, 2022October 13, 2022 13th October 2022 That is it for tomatoes this year, all plants have been pulled out and anything…
Carrots out, Garlic in… SteveOctober 10, 2022October 9, 2022 Hard to believe that there was a row of carrots between the parsnips and the beetroot on the…
Onions in the Garden SteveOctober 9, 2022 To give the plot a break from allium leaf minor I decided to grow all our onions in…
Sorting out the Sprouts SteveOctober 5, 2022October 4, 2022 It’s been a busy weekend, no time to go to the plot and so I went after work…
Weekly Harvest 4th Oct 22 SteveOctober 4, 2022 4th October 2022 One last lot of runner beans, which was a bit of a surprise. There are…
Weekly Harvest 29th Sept 22 SteveSeptember 29, 2022 29th September 2022 Picking as many tomatoes as we can before the days get too short and cold.…
Weekly Harvest 20th Sept 22 SteveSeptember 20, 2022 20th September 2022 No surprise that we have been picking (red) tomatoes, but a bit of a surprise…
Pumpkins, Edging, Field Beans SteveSeptember 19, 2022September 19, 2022 For quite a while we had two pumpkins growing off of the one plant, one grew larger each…
Heavy Rain SteveSeptember 13, 2022September 11, 2022 Lots of rain and it was heavy. I wondered how the netting I had put over the brassicas…
Weekly Harvest 13th Sept 22 SteveSeptember 13, 2022 13th September 2022 Tomatoes are still turning red, some of them are splitting but that doesn’t seem to…
Keep Cutting the Grass SteveSeptember 12, 2022September 11, 2022 I cut the grass and then five minutes (or maybe one week) later it had regrown and was…
Shorter Days SteveSeptember 8, 2022September 8, 2022 Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…
Weekly Harvest 7th Sept 22 SteveSeptember 7, 2022 7th September 2022 The weather was about to turn and so it seemed a good time to dig…
Tomatoes and Butternut Squash SteveAugust 28, 2022August 27, 2022 Most of the garden is filled with tomatoes and butternut squash. I keep spotting small squashes forming and…
Field Beans – Green Manure SteveAugust 27, 2022 I’ve tried overwintered green manure before but have always done it a little too late meaning they had…
Weekly Harvest 26th Aug 2022 SteveAugust 26, 2022 26th August 2022 I’ve been happy leaving the potatoes in the ground all the time it’s been really…
Rain! SteveAugust 20, 2022 It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
Weekly Harvest 19th Aug 22 SteveAugust 19, 2022 19th August 2022 Borlotti beans are something we have never grown, it was only because we got sent…
Weekly Harvest 10th Aug 22 SteveAugust 10, 2022 10th August 2022 Another week of beetroot, with a helping of french and runner beans. We are picking…
Swede plants SteveAugust 9, 2022 We have never bought plants, we have always grown from seed. Buying in small seedlings is just too…
Weekly Harvest 3rd Aug 22 SteveAugust 3, 2022 3rd August 2022 We have been digging potatoes as needed each week but now it was time to…
Planting out purple sprouting SteveJuly 31, 2022 I thought I had left it a bit late, but looking back at notes from last year I…
Beetroot and beans in the garden SteveJuly 29, 2022July 27, 2022 An advantage of having some of the food growing in the garden is that it is not only…
Sprouts and more watering SteveJuly 28, 2022July 27, 2022 During the summer months there is not much to do apart from watering, weeding, and harvesting. Most of…
Weekly Harvest 27th July 22 SteveJuly 27, 2022July 27, 2022 27th July 2022 We bought in the rest of the onions that have been drying, that’s it now…
The Hottest Day Ever SteveJuly 22, 2022 We didn’t get temperatures of 40c but we were around 30c for most of the day, maxing at…
Weekly Harvest 17th July 22 SteveJuly 18, 2022 17th July 2022 Soft fruit and beetroot mostly. Not as much fruit as last year, in fact one…
Weekly Harvest 8th July 22 SteveJuly 8, 2022 8th July 2022 . Suddenly it’s July and everything is ready, the days are long and the weather…
Summer time – lots of watering SteveJuly 7, 2022July 7, 2022 The potatoes on the plot certainly were in need of water when I visited in the evening, hopefully…
Weekly Harvest 30th June 22 SteveJune 30, 2022 30th June 2022 We have started eating beetroot, picked from the garden. Likewise, the “cordon” of spring onions…
Tomatoes, Squash, Decking SteveJune 26, 2022 Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
Weekly Harvest 25th June 22 SteveJune 25, 2022June 25, 2022 25th June 2022 It’s so nice to have a year with strawberries, we have missed them for the…
Garlic and Onion Harvest SteveJune 20, 2022June 19, 2022 Suddenly, both the garlic and the overwintered onions looked ready, they had both died back. I did have…
Kitchen Garden – Summer Time SteveJune 19, 2022June 19, 2022 The last week has been very hot and summer like, it ended with thunder, heavy rain and very…
Weekly Harvest 14th June 22 SteveJune 14, 2022 14th June 2022 Nice to see some strawberries turning red, even nicer that we are getting to a…
2021 – The Stats SteveJune 10, 2022 Summary A bit late (halfway through 2022!) but time to look at the stats for 2021. Highlights include:…
Sun – Rain – Sun – Mice SteveJune 8, 2022 We have had hot days of 24c and then lots of heavy rain in between, good weather for…
Weekly Harvest 30th May 22 SteveMay 31, 2022 30th May 2022 We are racing against time to eat all the radish before they bolt. We have…
Early morning watering SteveMay 28, 2022 Nice warm weather means early morning the the garden, watering and weeding – then sitting down with toast…
Weekly Harvest 26th May 22 SteveMay 26, 2022 26th May 2022 Picking lots of radish. They have all gone now from the plot, but just in…
Planting out at the plot SteveMay 22, 2022 An early 7am start, up to the plot in the car with various things to plant out. I…