
Compost for the garden
Each year I am amazed buy how low the level gets in the raised beds. It starts at…
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Each year I am amazed buy how low the level gets in the raised beds. It starts at…
Weather has not been good for weeks but I finally ventured up to the plot today to dig…
We stopped picking runner beans last month as we just could not keep up with them. We eat…
We have had the best year for carrots in the garden, something we normally struggle with. We have…
I am pretty pleased with the tomatoes, with new ones turning red each day and ready for picking.…
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
We have finally picked our first lot of sweetcorn cobs which has worked out really well in the…
The garden, I think, is looking really good and I pretty pleased with that we have done, I…
I have high hopes for our tomatoes and sweetcorn currently growing in the garden. I’ve been removing leaves…
Every day, the sweetcorn plants grow taller and we have started to see corn cobs growing on the…
The peas came out this weekend, they finished a couple of weeks ago but some were still keeping…
Rain in the summer is annoying but if it’s warm too then plants will grow and sometimes very…
Back in 2022 we put up a shed at another plot, it was time for us to take…
A super windy weekend which meant it wasn’t the best to spend a lot of time at the…
We are on a mission to eat as many radish as possible as the garden keeps providing enough…
Sunny early morning and so planted out: I sowed some more beetroot as the current line of plants…
I sowed runner beans undercover last weekend and this weekend they were ready to plant out. This year…
A mid week visit on the way home from work, it was sunny and warm during the day…
A bank holiday weekend started off sunny and I had a long list of plants that needed planting…
Finally got round to cutting the bushes back to shape and trimming/hacking the tree. The off cuts I…
It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
Easter weekend, early this year at the end of March. So far this year it has been mostly…
We make compost at home but there is not enough waste to make a lot of it, so…
They served us well this year, I never knew they even existed until we got them. I was…
Tidying the garden, starting with cutting the grass which after all the dry and warm weather had become…
This time last week it was super hot and sunny, a bit of an extension to a summer…
Not fully in the shade but give it a couple of weeks and that will be it until…
We were given a present of a voucher for the garden centre and so decided to redo the…
While those on the plot have suffered from the wind and the rain throughout the summer (I expect…
A bit of a surprise with all the wind we have had this week. The beans have taken…
After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…
I find that if you break up projects in ‘phases’ then it hides the fact that it has…
It’s been super hot these last days, temperatures have not gone below 20c for a couple of days.…
Wind and rain and wind, and more wind…. In the end I thought I need to get the…
One bed is protected by the Popadomes, the other is covered in green netting. The steps needed to…
I don’t know if we will get a good harvest as we put filled the potato buckets with…
Still not really hitting 20c according to the temperature probe in the garden, but in the sun it…
Still yet to reach 20c in the garden this year, I wonder if the cool temperatures and unsettled…
The bloke in the plot next to us was giving it up and offered for me to take…
With one bed put over to onions (to give the plot a rest), it feels not much will…
Overwintering in the garden does not work well, the lack of light and the constant wetness…. I’ve talked…
Looking back, it is a year today that we redid the beds in the garden, split them into…
A boggy wet mess is mostly how our garden can be described for six months of the year,…
It is important to note for another year…. the garden is just too dark and wet for any…
Finally, I finish pruning/chopping the shrubs and trees in the garden for their yearly haircut. It seems to…
A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…
A day off work and the first frost of the winter. I don’t think we have had frost…
To give the plot a break from allium leaf minor I decided to grow all our onions in…
I cut the grass and then five minutes (or maybe one week) later it had regrown and was…
Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…