Garden Planting
After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…
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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…
Potatoes in the garden
I don’t know if we will get a good harvest as we put filled the potato buckets with…
Hose pipes and leeks
Watering the plot has always been quite a major job, multiple trips to the water trough up and…
Hot(ish) Days
Still not really hitting 20c according to the temperature probe in the garden, but in the sun it…
Weekly Harvest 30th May 23
30th May 2023 Not all in one go, this is for the month of May which for some…
Everything is growing
Firstly, bindweed. I managed with ease to fill a small trug with it. Mostly it comes out easy…
The evening of the sprout plants
The sprouts I sowed in seed tray, in coir, had grown well but were starting to show signs…
Just weeding
A late start and one where it was hot and sunny. I could had done more but I…
Cutting the grass, again
I thought I would go up to the plot to give the seeds a bit of a water.…
Peas and Potatoes
I found it hard to find borlotti bean seeds, I tracked them down as pinto beans. I’m not…
Slow in the garden
Still yet to reach 20c in the garden this year, I wonder if the cool temperatures and unsettled…
Popadomes!
The bloke in the plot next to us was giving it up and offered for me to take…
Sunny afternoon at the plot
Suddenly, Sunday afternoon it became sunny and warm. It’s not yet been hot yet this year, there has…
Everything sown in the garden
With one bed put over to onions (to give the plot a rest), it feels not much will…
Early sunny morning – lots done
A good four hours on the plot while Tom was at work, super early in the morning and…
Bringing soil back to life in the garden
Overwintering in the garden does not work well, the lack of light and the constant wetness…. I’ve talked…
Weekly Harvest 29th April 23
29th April 2023 Much of the same, rhubarb and purple sprouting…. 2023 B/F £33.74 IN OUT purple sprouting…
Last row of potatoes before it rains
Sun, a small bit of warmth, but plenty of rain means the plot and it’s bindweed was in…
Weekly Harvest 19th April 23
19th April 2023 We gave away loads of rhubarb, big thick sticks, we could had picked a lot…
Parsnips and Purple Sprouting
I wanted to sow parsnips last week but the weather didn’t allow it. It was cloudy but warm…
Planting and sowing
Looking back, it is a year today that we redid the beds in the garden, split them into…
The garden waking up
A boggy wet mess is mostly how our garden can be described for six months of the year,…
Weekly Harvest 10th April 23
10th April2023 Purple sprouting is so deceptive, you think it’s just all leaf and never going to do…
Potatoes In
Easter weekend was set to be super sunny for the most part (BRITS SIZZLE IN EASTER HEATWAVE.. as…
Tidying up – last fire of the year
This weekend would be the last time fires are permitted until the end of summer, so I was…
New decking, more sowing, some repotting
Finally got round to replacing the “decking” at the plot. It was originally made of pallets but after…
Weekly Harvest 26th Mar 23
26th March 2023 We have had two pickings of rhubarb, the plant has exploded over the last couple…
Filling in gaps in the onions
It is important to note for another year…. the garden is just too dark and wet for any…
More seeds
Mostly sowing more seeds, which will start off indoors until they germinate and then go outside undercover. Last…
Starting to sow seeds
Suddenly… it was time to sow seeds for 2023 and with the prospect of it getting busy as…
Fire and Trees
Finally, I finish pruning/chopping the shrubs and trees in the garden for their yearly haircut. It seems to…
Weekly Harvest 25th Feb 23
25th February 2023 Just a small picking of sprouts. I wish I had kept a bit more of…
Shredded bushes and raspberry supports
I’ve been recording outside temperatures for three years now (the computer does all the monitor, I just look…
New Raspberry Bed Complete
It took longer than I was expecting, but I did end up doing some pretty deep digging in…
Weekly Harvest 8th Feb 23
8th February 2023 The parsnips have all been dug up, cleaned, cut up and put in the freezer.…
Parsnips and Raspberries
I dug up the remaining parsnips, not the best harvest but better than nothing. They will be chopped…
Weekly Harvest 24th Jan 23
24th January 2023 The swedes came and went, we hardly noticed them this year. The seedlings came to…
Sunrise, frost and raspberries
I got to the plot before sunrise this morning, it was a bit dark and certainly a lot…
Muddy Mud and Woodchip
A lack of plot visits for over the previous months mostly due to constant rain every weekend. It…