It’s suddenly summer in the garden
We’ve had rain and sun and warmth, the days are long and everything is growing. Suddenly the garden…
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Uncovering beetroot
The black netting has done a good job at keeping squirrels off and it is good in that…
Garden veg growing
It is now June and the garden is growing well. Our chillies (which we were not going to…
More planting out in the garden
Rain is forecast later this week and so today seemed a good time to plant out the french…
Planting out sweetcorn and new netting
There would be no point planting out the young sweetcorn plants if I did not first do something…
Tidying garden a bit
Warm sunny weather, nearly warm enough to have breakfast in the garden, certainly warm enough to be outside…
The Garden: Onions, seedlings, new growth
After a couple of nice spring-like warm days the garden is starting to get the sun again out…
Compost for the garden
Each year I am amazed buy how low the level gets in the raised beds. It starts at…
Digging the remaining parsnips
Weather has not been good for weeks but I finally ventured up to the plot today to dig…
Tidying up the garden – taking down beans
We stopped picking runner beans last month as we just could not keep up with them. We eat…
Last of the garden carrots
We have had the best year for carrots in the garden, something we normally struggle with. We have…
Tomatoes and Beans
I am pretty pleased with the tomatoes, with new ones turning red each day and ready for picking.…
Pumpkins and tomatoes
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
Garden sweetcorn
We have finally picked our first lot of sweetcorn cobs which has worked out really well in the…
Just need to cut the grass
The garden, I think, is looking really good and I pretty pleased with that we have done, I…
Sweetcorn and tomatoes in the garden
I have high hopes for our tomatoes and sweetcorn currently growing in the garden. I’ve been removing leaves…
The Corn Jungle
Every day, the sweetcorn plants grow taller and we have started to see corn cobs growing on the…
Just the garden growing…
The peas came out this weekend, they finished a couple of weeks ago but some were still keeping…
Rain and warmth in the garden
Rain in the summer is annoying but if it’s warm too then plants will grow and sometimes very…
New Shed
Back in 2022 we put up a shed at another plot, it was time for us to take…
Not so windy in the garden
A super windy weekend which meant it wasn’t the best to spend a lot of time at the…
Radish everywhere!
We are on a mission to eat as many radish as possible as the garden keeps providing enough…
Garden beds filling up
Sunny early morning and so planted out: I sowed some more beetroot as the current line of plants…
Planting out beans and tomatoes
I sowed runner beans undercover last weekend and this weekend they were ready to plant out. This year…
The battle of the peas
A mid week visit on the way home from work, it was sunny and warm during the day…
Sunny day in the garden
A bank holiday weekend started off sunny and I had a long list of plants that needed planting…
Cutting bushes, planting out
Finally got round to cutting the bushes back to shape and trimming/hacking the tree. The off cuts I…
Planting out onions
It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
First sowing in the garden for 2024
Easter weekend, early this year at the end of March. So far this year it has been mostly…
Shop compost for the garden beds
We make compost at home but there is not enough waste to make a lot of it, so…
Tidying up, taking down the PoppaDomes
They served us well this year, I never knew they even existed until we got them. I was…
Beetroot and Butternut remaining
Tidying the garden, starting with cutting the grass which after all the dry and warm weather had become…
Tidying the garden for the winter
This time last week it was super hot and sunny, a bit of an extension to a summer…
The garden in the shade
Not fully in the shade but give it a couple of weeks and that will be it until…
Pots in the Garden
We were given a present of a voucher for the garden centre and so decided to redo the…
Tomatoes in the garden
While those on the plot have suffered from the wind and the rain throughout the summer (I expect…
In the garden, beans still standing
A bit of a surprise with all the wind we have had this week. The beans have taken…
Garden Planting
After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…
Garden Paving – Phase3 completion
I find that if you break up projects in ‘phases’ then it hides the fact that it has…
Raining in the garden
It’s been super hot these last days, temperatures have not gone below 20c for a couple of days.…
Onions out, Butternut Squash in
Wind and rain and wind, and more wind…. In the end I thought I need to get the…
Letting the Beans Out
One bed is protected by the Popadomes, the other is covered in green netting. The steps needed to…
Potatoes in the garden
I don’t know if we will get a good harvest as we put filled the potato buckets with…
Hot(ish) Days
Still not really hitting 20c according to the temperature probe in the garden, but in the sun it…
Slow in the garden
Still yet to reach 20c in the garden this year, I wonder if the cool temperatures and unsettled…
Popadomes!
The bloke in the plot next to us was giving it up and offered for me to take…
Everything sown in the garden
With one bed put over to onions (to give the plot a rest), it feels not much will…
Bringing soil back to life in the garden
Overwintering in the garden does not work well, the lack of light and the constant wetness…. I’ve talked…
Planting and sowing
Looking back, it is a year today that we redid the beds in the garden, split them into…
The garden waking up
A boggy wet mess is mostly how our garden can be described for six months of the year,…