
2020 The Stats
Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
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Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…
Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…
An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…
I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…
It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…
Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…
All this staying at home, I’m starting to be obsessive about parsnips! Last year was a first try…
I have various in seed trays indoors: chillies – late to sow this year, probably ready to put…
It had rained most of yesterday and bits during the night, the morning was not looking too promising…
It shows just how much we have done on the allotment with the soil, lots of organic matter…
We had planned to do something with the lawn this year, maybe a bit of paving to put…
I thought it would take just a couple of days to get the path finished once I had…
I know spring does not start until the 20th March, but we can forgive a day or two…. …
With the waste wood off Freecycle we started laying the new wooden path. Taking up the paving I…
I plan to make a start on this over the weekend. The other week we managed to pick…
Lots of promise for 2011 but yet any to be lived out. So far work in the garden…
September means it is spider month, in the garden and in the house you bump into spiders all…
Probably the first and last chance to cut the grass before winter sets in. By this time only…
All the constant August rain has been my fault. At the beginning of the month we started work…
We have two plants, one taking up four squares in the beds and the other on its own…