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