2021 Summary
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
Category: allotment at home
Parsnips from the garden
It was cold but it was very sunny, which seemed like a good time to do bits in…
Quick visit for carrots
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
Clearing and netting in the garden
Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…
An autumn feeling
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
Garden Flowers & Squash
Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…
Garden Potatoes
With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Discovering the Leeks
I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
Planting out things
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
Summer Evenings
It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…
Squash plants in the garden
The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…
Tidying the garden
Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…
Squash plants do like the rain
After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…
An evening of planting
It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes
Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…
How does your garden grow?
After a bit of sun after all this rain and cold, it grows very well. The sunny bank…
The Day After Tomorrow
I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…
Good Growing Weather
It’s not the warm spring days we enjoyed this time last year, sometimes it feels like the middle…
A bit of warmth & the garden grows
Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…
The Longest (busiest) Day
The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
More sowing at home
While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…
2020 The Stats
Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
Just sowing…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
New Poo… and garden bed finished
I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…
Work continues at home
Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…
Cutting down the Hop
An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…
2020 Summary
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
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…