Hot(ish) Days
Still not really hitting 20c according to the temperature probe in the garden, but in the sun it…
Category: allotment at home
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,…
Filling in gaps in the onions
It is important to note for another year…. the garden is just too dark and wet for any…
Fire and Trees
Finally, I finish pruning/chopping the shrubs and trees in the garden for their yearly haircut. It seems to…
2022 Summary
A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…
Frost and Poo
A day off work and the first frost of the winter. I don’t think we have had frost…
Onions in the Garden
To give the plot a break from allium leaf minor I decided to grow all our onions in…
Keep Cutting the Grass
I cut the grass and then five minutes (or maybe one week) later it had regrown and was…
Shorter Days
Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…
Tomatoes and Butternut Squash
Most of the garden is filled with tomatoes and butternut squash. I keep spotting small squashes forming and…
Rain!
It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
Beetroot and beans in the garden
An advantage of having some of the food growing in the garden is that it is not only…
The Hottest Day Ever
We didn’t get temperatures of 40c but we were around 30c for most of the day, maxing at…
Summer time – lots of watering
The potatoes on the plot certainly were in need of water when I visited in the evening, hopefully…
Tomatoes, Squash, Decking
Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
Kitchen Garden – Summer Time
The last week has been very hot and summer like, it ended with thunder, heavy rain and very…
2021 – The Stats
Summary A bit late (halfway through 2022!) but time to look at the stats for 2021. Highlights include:…
Early morning watering
Nice warm weather means early morning the the garden, watering and weeding – then sitting down with toast…
Lots of planting in the garden
Only when you look at photos from the week before do you notice just how much things have…
A little bit of rain in the garden
Not much on the plot this weekend. Saturday was like a summer’s day, blue sky and hot, Sunday…
Peas in the Garden
I was just going out in the garden to sow some runner and french bean seeds, but to…
Grass in the Garden
We ran out of time over Easter, the finishing touch to the two new beds in the garden…
Sowing seeds in the Garden
We also planted out some lettuce plants that have been growing in pots for the last month. I…
Garden beds ready
I had hoped to had spent the evenings during the week finishing off the second bed, but the…
Change in the Garden
The garden is annoying in that it is not on a hill and yet it is on a…
Poo in the Garden
Most weekends so far this year have been wet and miserable, not much going on in the garden…
2021 Summary
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
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…