An early morning
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
Category: allotment at home
Planting sprouts
It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
Cutting back
A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
Eating radish
The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
French beans and parsnips
In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…
Obsessed with Parsnips!
All this staying at home, I’m starting to be obsessive about parsnips! Last year was a first try…
Growing at home
I have various in seed trays indoors: chillies – late to sow this year, probably ready to put…
Seedlings and peas
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
It shows just how much we have done on the allotment with the soil, lots of organic matter…
Bringing things closer to home
We had planned to do something with the lawn this year, maybe a bit of paving to put…
The Path Plods On
I thought it would take just a couple of days to get the path finished once I had…
Spring has sprung!
I know spring does not start until the 20th March, but we can forgive a day or two…. …
We start the path…
With the waste wood off Freecycle we started laying the new wooden path. Taking up the paving I…
Free wood leads to new project
I plan to make a start on this over the weekend. The other week we managed to pick…
Slow slow start to 2011
Lots of promise for 2011 but yet any to be lived out. So far work in the garden…
Spooky Spiders
September means it is spider month, in the garden and in the house you bump into spiders all…
September 2010
Probably the first and last chance to cut the grass before winter sets in. By this time only…
Garage Doors Finally Painted
All the constant August rain has been my fault. At the beginning of the month we started work…
Courgette Flowers -but no courgettes yet
We have two plants, one taking up four squares in the beds and the other on its own…