2020 Summary
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
Category: allotment at home
Deep freeze in the garden
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
Digging the garden
This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…
More poo in the garden
I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…
Just a winter late afternoon visit
It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…
Fire time
Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…
Planting Garlic
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
Garden taking shape
I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…
Planting peas and beans
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
Working in the Garden
After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…
Garden plans and strawberry beds
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
Super hot and it’s only 10am
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
Watering and tidying
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
One last lot of carrots
The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
Harvests from the garden
The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Leeks and netting
Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
Evening watering and currants
For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Wintery evening of onions
Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Problem with wind…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Rain – Sun – Fruit
A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Cutting down trees
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
An early morning
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
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…