Woodchip and poo
Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…
Author: Steve
Weekly Harvest 2nd Nov 21
2nd November 2021 .Finally pulled up the carrots, a mix of good large ones and a load of…
Quick visit for carrots
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
Strawberries Moved
I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…
Weekly Harvest 19th Oct 21
19th October 2021 The week of the squashes, I’m not sure what to do with them now we…
Strawberries and onions
I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…
Weekly Harvest 13th Oct 21
13th October 2021 I’ve started to pull the carrots, it will soon be too wet and damp for…
Clearing and netting in the garden
Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…
Strawberries and fence
A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…
Weekly Harvest – 5th Oct 21
5th October 2021 October is always allotment fee month, so that’s £60s that goes straight away. It has…
Weekly Harvest
28th September 2021 Finally we start pulling a lot of beetroot. Some we eat straight away, some we…
An autumn feeling
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
Weekly Harvest 21st Sept 21
21st September 2021 A bit of a lack of photos… We pulled a load of small carrots from…
Weekly Harvest 14th Sept 21
14th September 2021 Summer plants are coming to an end, we are picking the last lot of runner…
Compost and the Shredder 2000
An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…
Weekly Harvest 7th Sept 21
7th September 2021 It’s suddenly a rather late hot summer, for at least four days. Courgettes have slowed…
Garden Flowers & Squash
Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…
Turnip Time
I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…
Weekly Harvest 31st Aug 21
31st August 2021 We finally dug the potatoes in the garden and the harvest was a good as…
Lots of jobs done
Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…
Garden Potatoes
With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Weekly Harvest 24th Aug 21
24th August 2021 The rest of the potatoes on the plot did not disappoint. The number of courgette…
Quick visit to fetch courgettes
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
Potatoes and Fences
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
Discovering the Leeks
I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
Weekly Harvest 10th Aug 21
10th August 2021 A positive start some actual red tomatoes growing well, and being picked, in the garden.…
Another year of green tomatoes
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…
Weekly Harvest 3rd August 21
3rd August 2021 It’s a week of millions of courgettes from just two plants, and a week of…
Planting out things
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
Picking up tomato plants
It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…
Weekly Harvest 27th July 21
27th July 2021 The “big four” includes onions, the the summer onions have not been great. I pulled…
Summer Evenings
It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…
Weekly Harvest 20th July 21
20th July 2021 Another one of the “big four” harvests, this time potatoes. Only one row at the…
The Night of the Potatoes – lots of them
One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…
Squash plants in the garden
The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…
It’s Summer Time
Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…
Weekly Harvest 13th July 21
13th July 2021 The harvests have really started, better late than never. I pulled the winter onions, one…
Tidying the garden
Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…
Wind damaged tomatoes
Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…
A bit of calm before all the storms
It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…
Weekly Harvest 6th July 21
6th July2021 June was mostly cold, wet and windy, so far July is continuing. With such bad weather…
Weekly Harvest 29th June 21
29th June 2021 The middle of summer, and yet most days are wet, windy and cold – harvests…
Cloudy, murky, but warm(ish)
Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…
Weekly Harvest 22nd June 21
22nd June 2021 We return to mid winter, wind rain and cold temperatures. We might have had harvested…
Weeding after the rain
Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…
Squash plants do like the rain
After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…
Weekly Harvest 15th June 21
15th June 2021 It is quite a relief that the radish phase is over for now, we couldn’t…
An evening of planting
It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes
Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…