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2020 The Stats

SteveApril 2, 2021

Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…

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Just sowing…

SteveMarch 21, 2021

I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…

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New Poo… and garden bed finished

SteveMarch 7, 2021

I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…

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Work continues at home

SteveFebruary 27, 2021

Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…

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Cutting down the Hop

SteveFebruary 6, 2021

An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…

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2020 Summary

SteveJanuary 17, 2021January 17, 2021

A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…

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Deep freeze in the garden

SteveJanuary 10, 2021January 9, 2021

We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…

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Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries

SteveDecember 31, 2020December 31, 2020

It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…

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Digging the garden

SteveDecember 19, 2020

This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…

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More poo in the garden

SteveNovember 30, 2020November 29, 2020

I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…

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Just a winter late afternoon visit

SteveNovember 15, 2020

It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…

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Fire time

SteveNovember 8, 2020November 8, 2020

Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…

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Planting Garlic

SteveOctober 9, 2020October 10, 2020

We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…

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Garden taking shape

SteveSeptember 23, 2020September 22, 2020

I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…

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Planting peas and beans

SteveSeptember 13, 2020

The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…

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Working in the Garden

SteveSeptember 6, 2020

After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…

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Garden plans and strawberry beds

SteveAugust 23, 2020

When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…

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Super hot and it’s only 10am

SteveAugust 9, 2020

I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…

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Watering and tidying

SteveAugust 2, 2020

Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…

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One last lot of carrots

SteveJuly 22, 2020

The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…

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Harvests from the garden

SteveJuly 19, 2020

The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…

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Leeks and netting

SteveJuly 15, 2020

Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…

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Evening watering and currants

SteveJuly 13, 2020

For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…

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Wintery evening of onions

SteveJuly 12, 2020July 13, 2020

Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…

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Problem with wind…

SteveJuly 5, 2020

Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…

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Rain – Sun – Fruit

SteveJune 21, 2020

A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…

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Cutting down trees

SteveJune 15, 2020

Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…

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An early morning

SteveMay 31, 2020June 3, 2020

I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…

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Planting sprouts

SteveMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020

It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…

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Cutting back

SteveMay 17, 2020May 18, 2020

A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…

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Eating radish

SteveMay 10, 2020

The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…

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French beans and parsnips

SteveMay 2, 2020

In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…

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Obsessed with Parsnips!

SteveApril 30, 2020April 29, 2020

All this staying at home, I’m starting to be obsessive about parsnips! Last year was a first try…

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Growing at home

SteveApril 27, 2020April 26, 2020

I have various in seed trays indoors: chillies – late to sow this year, probably ready to put…

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Seedlings and peas

SteveApril 19, 2020

It had rained most of yesterday and bits during the night, the morning was not looking too promising…

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Parsnips, carrots,a lot of seeds – and compost

SteveApril 12, 2020April 12, 2020

It shows just how much we have done on the allotment with the soil, lots of organic matter…

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Bringing things closer to home

SteveApril 5, 2020

We had planned to do something with the lawn this year, maybe a bit of paving to put…

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The Path Plods On

SteveMarch 30, 2011April 5, 2020

I thought it would take just a couple of days to get the path finished once I had…

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Spring has sprung!

SteveMarch 19, 2011April 5, 2020

I know spring does not start until the 20th March, but we can forgive a day or two….  …

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We start the path…

SteveMarch 19, 2011April 5, 2020

With the waste wood off Freecycle we started laying the new wooden path.   Taking up the paving I…

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Free wood leads to new project

SteveMarch 12, 2011April 5, 2020

I plan to make a start on this over the weekend. The other week we managed to pick…

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Slow slow start to 2011

SteveMarch 5, 2011April 5, 2020

Lots of promise for 2011 but yet any to be lived out.  So far work in the garden…

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Spooky Spiders

SteveOctober 3, 2010April 5, 2020

September means it is spider month, in the garden and in the house you bump into spiders all…

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September 2010

SteveSeptember 12, 2010April 5, 2020

Probably the first and last chance to cut the grass before winter sets in.  By this time only…

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Garage Doors Finally Painted

SteveSeptember 5, 2010April 5, 2020

All the constant August rain has been my fault.  At the beginning of the month we started work…

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Courgette Flowers -but no courgettes yet

SteveAugust 15, 2010April 5, 2020

We have two plants, one taking up four squares in the beds and the other on its own…

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