Curly curly kale and catapillers
I was surprised by how well the curly kale was growing, I was able to pick my second…
Category: allotment
Netting and weeding
After all the wind and rain for the whole of last week I was wondering what I would…
Hot hot hot… then wind and rain
It was suggested we would have another heat wave but if it happened we didn’t quite get it…
Late night watering
Quick visits to the plot for some late night watering. It’s been hot these last days, not massively…
Sweetcorn damage on the plot
I did see reports from other plot holders saying mice or rats had eaten all their sweetcorn cobs…
I don’t even know what I’ve planted out…
I’ve had numerous brassica plants growing undercover for a while which all need planting out, if only I…
Big harvests potato and onion time
A lot has been happening over the last couple of weeks, mostly digging potatoes and pulling up onions.…
Flowering Lettuce
It looked a bit messy for a while as if I had forgotten to pull up lettuce that…
Summer harvests
The days have been hot, it has been an actual heatwave for most of the week. Along with…
Garlic Harvest and Netting
Just a week ago the garlic was looking very healthy and continuing to grow and then the next…
Windy on the plot – planting out sweetcorn
Sunny but really windy, I hoped it the trees would shelter me from most of the wind but…
More watering and then rain…
I thought I would not be up at the plot for a couple of days and so I’ll…
Evening watering
It hasn’t rained much this month which is a pity as for things like potatoes it is just…
Planting out leeks
I’ve never been able to wait until my leek plants are the thickness of a pencil before I…
Compost bin switch over
It has been well overdue, the yearly “trimming of the trees and bushes” in the garden. They started…
Harvesting radish place holders
Along with seeds that will take a long time to germinate I also sowed old radish seed is…
Quick tidy before inspection
It happens each year, the council inspect the plots and those not 75% cultivated for the last 12…
Weeding onions, banking potatoes
It has been a mixture of sun and rain for the last week and I expected to find…
Seedlings starting to show
With not much rain over the last weeks I went up to the plot to water the rows…
Potatoes all planted on the hottest day
New records were made today in the garden when it registered 19.1c which is the hottest day of…
Broadbeans and Potatoes
Clocks changed and the first day has been sunny, an early morning not quite so as it did…
Parsnips Sown – Strawberry Bed Done
Last year I started to redo the strawberry bed which was in a raised bed covered by a…
Starting to clear the fence
I was talking to our new neighbours the other day and they were busy clearing the weeds and…
Onion Sets – Digging Beds
I have a mixture of onion sets, overwintered onions from seed, also onions from seed sown the other…
Cutting grass, meeting new people
With the recent warm weather it was nice to go to the plot late afternoon and cut the…
First planting of the year
Late last year I sowed a tray of over-wintering onion seed and I mostly left them outside undercover…
More prep on the plot
Frosty in the morning, clear sky and sun during the morning, I decided to fill another six bags…
Digging the remaining parsnips
Weather has not been good for weeks but I finally ventured up to the plot today to dig…
New Year Plot Visit
A cold freezing day but the sun had melted most of the ice by mid morning, although the…
Winter poo and more leaves
The other day I found a new supply of rotted down horse manure, we were out for a…
A Sea of Leaves
You can on longer deny that autumn is here and winter is coming quickly when you see your…
Pumpkins out, garlic in
A couple of warm sunny autumn days allowed me to go to the plot during the day and…
Picking pumpkins
Time to start tidying up and prepping things. I pulled the last lot of carrots which got us…
Autumn suddenly arrives
You visit the plot and it feels just like summer, if not a bit cooler, you cling onto…
Picking dried beans
The borlotti plants on the plot have all died back so it was time to pick off the…
Covering Swedes a Bit More
I covered the swedes last week in order to keep the birds off but it turns out it…
Pumpkins and tomatoes
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
Autumn already?
It certainly feels like it, shorter evenings and colder mornings. Have we eaten breakfast in the garden for…
The day of the potatoes
A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…
About time I did some weeding
Because in previous years I used to always go up to the plot super early in the morning…
Onions Out, Purple Sprouting In
It was forecast to be a wet week with super hot days in-between, I’d been waiting for a…
Quick visits to the plot
The one day I had time to be at the plot the weather decided to modal mid winter…
Courgettes and swedes
We have started to puck courgettes and with all the wet weather I am expecting them to grow…
Suddenly Summer
Lots of watering other the last week leaving the plot with a mixture of over wintered plants coming…
Windy visit
Super windy with cold and rain yesterday and sun with blue skies today. I was surprised to see…
Beans plant out, strawberries picked
I cut the grass paths between plots, and I built a bit more of the decking edging that…
Planting out squash & strawberry war victory
A mixed weather forecast of warm sunny and rainy days for the next week which made me think…
The battle of the weeds
A mix of warm weather and rain meant the plot, and in fact the whole allotment site, had…
The battle of the peas
A mid week visit on the way home from work, it was sunny and warm during the day…
Netting for strawberries
I started this the other week, creating a frame and netting for the strawberries. The idea here is…