Weekly Harvest 4th Aug 20 SteveAugust 4, 2020 4th August 2020 I had another go at blackberry picking and returned with loads once again. that’s probably…
Watering and tidying SteveAugust 2, 2020 Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
Podcast SteveJuly 30, 2020July 30, 2020 It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…
Weekly Harvest 28th July 20 SteveJuly 28, 2020 28th July 2020 2020 B/F £142.54 IN OUT Chilies – 30g £0.51 French Beans – 91g £0.61 Lettuce…
Blackberries, swedes, courgettes – and paths SteveJuly 27, 2020 A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…
One last lot of carrots SteveJuly 22, 2020 The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
Weekly Harvest 21st July 20 SteveJuly 21, 2020July 21, 2020 21st July 2020 More onions, more potatoes, this time from the garden. The onions were left over from…
Harvests from the garden SteveJuly 19, 2020 The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Leeks and netting SteveJuly 15, 2020 Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
Weekly Harvest 14th July 20 SteveJuly 14, 2020 14th July 2020 The last of the big harvest items, onions. The second lot of onions from the…
Evening watering and currants SteveJuly 13, 2020 For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Wintery evening of onions SteveJuly 12, 2020July 13, 2020 Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Weekly Harvest 7th July 20 SteveJuly 7, 2020 7th July 2020 A welcome return to french beans, we had success with these in our first year…
Problem with wind… SteveJuly 5, 2020 Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Weekly Harvest 30th June 20 SteveJune 30, 2020 30th June 2020 The week of fruit and onions. Super pleased with the over wintered onions which were…
Day of the currants and the poo SteveJune 28, 2020 Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…
Night of the Potatoes SteveJune 24, 2020 Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
Weekly Harvest 23rd June 20 SteveJune 23, 2020 23rd June 2020 The week of the raspberries, every visit included a raspberry picking session. We have now…
Tidying SteveJune 22, 2020 A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…
Rain – Sun – Fruit SteveJune 21, 2020 A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Weekly Harvest 16th June 20 SteveJune 16, 2020 16th June 2020 The start of the “big three” harvests with pulling of the garlic (the other two…
Cutting down trees SteveJune 15, 2020 Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
Weekly Harvest 9th June 20 SteveJune 9, 2020 9th June 2020 No radish, maybe next week the long white icicle ones might be ready. We have…
Bye celeriac, hello tomatoes SteveJune 6, 2020June 6, 2020 They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
Weekly Harvest 2nd June 20 SteveJune 2, 2020June 2, 2020 2nd June 2020 It’s not yet time to pull the garlic, although it does look like I could…
An early morning SteveMay 31, 2020June 3, 2020 I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
Weekly Harvest 26th May 20 SteveMay 26, 2020 26th May 2020 We are pulling a lot of radish each day at the moment, the first time…
Planting sprouts SteveMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020 It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
Weekly Harvest 19th May 20 SteveMay 19, 2020 19th May 2020 The advantage of having things growing at home is starting to pay off with lunch…
Cutting back SteveMay 17, 2020May 18, 2020 A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
Weekly Harvest 12th May 20 SteveMay 12, 2020 12th May 2020 Radish time. These were probably ready a week ago but we had no need to…
Eating radish SteveMay 10, 2020 The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
Weekly Harvest 5th May 20 SteveMay 5, 2020 5th May 2020 I was pleased to be picking the first lot of broad beans for this year,…
Back to the Plot – for now SteveMay 3, 2020May 6, 2020 Let us not get over excited, all the talk by the media of relaxing lock down (have they…
French beans and parsnips SteveMay 2, 2020 In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…
Obsessed with Parsnips! SteveApril 30, 2020April 29, 2020 All this staying at home, I’m starting to be obsessive about parsnips! Last year was a first try…
Growing at home SteveApril 27, 2020April 26, 2020 I have various in seed trays indoors: chillies – late to sow this year, probably ready to put…
Venturing Out into the Wild SteveApril 26, 2020 Three weeks, or is it four weeks, it might even be five weeks – it seems like a…
Weekly Harvest 21st April 20 SteveApril 21, 2020 21st April 2020 A quiet month for harvest not too affected by the lock down. Expenses however have…
Seedlings and peas SteveApril 19, 2020 It had rained most of yesterday and bits during the night, the morning was not looking too promising…
Parsnips, carrots,a lot of seeds – and compost SteveApril 12, 2020April 12, 2020 It shows just how much we have done on the allotment with the soil, lots of organic matter…
Bringing things closer to home SteveApril 5, 2020 We had planned to do something with the lawn this year, maybe a bit of paving to put…
Weekly Harvest 31st March 20 SteveMarch 31, 2020March 28, 2020 31st March 2020 People seem to have decided that the allotment is a safe place that no virus…
Radish in a Pot SteveMarch 29, 2020 It is sunny and inviting outside, the clocks have changed, it seems an ideal morning to look at…
A Dash for the Leeks SteveMarch 25, 2020 I think of it as you “can” go to the allotment, but I think “should” you? I also…
Potatoes and Onions SteveMarch 22, 2020 We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…
Weekly Harvest 17th March 20 SteveMarch 17, 2020March 28, 2020 17th March 2020 I couldn’t work out what the new green shoots that had appeared over the week…
Getting things ready SteveMarch 15, 2020March 15, 2020 With all the bad weather since Christmas it is hard to believe it is time to start doing…
Larger Strawberries… SteveMarch 8, 2020 I had a bit of a list to work through, it was the first non-cold, non-raining morning for…
2019 – The Stats SteveMarch 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Everyone likes spreadsheets and numbers, here is 2019 in numbers… These figures are from the year’s worth of…