Clearing and netting in the garden SteveOctober 10, 2021 Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…
An autumn feeling SteveSeptember 26, 2021 With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
Garden Flowers & Squash SteveSeptember 6, 2021 Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…
Garden Potatoes SteveAugust 30, 2021 With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Discovering the Leeks SteveAugust 14, 2021 I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
Planting out things SteveAugust 1, 2021 Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
Summer Evenings SteveJuly 24, 2021 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 SteveJuly 15, 2021 The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…
Tidying the garden SteveJuly 9, 2021 Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…
Squash plants do like the rain SteveJune 19, 2021 After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…
An evening of planting SteveJune 12, 2021June 15, 2021 It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes SteveJune 8, 2021 Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…
How does your garden grow? SteveJune 2, 2021May 31, 2021 After a bit of sun after all this rain and cold, it grows very well. The sunny bank…
The Day After Tomorrow SteveMay 23, 2021 I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…
Good Growing Weather SteveMay 19, 2021 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 SteveMay 12, 2021May 11, 2021 Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…
The Longest (busiest) Day SteveMay 2, 2021May 2, 2021 The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
More sowing at home SteveApril 18, 2021April 18, 2021 While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…
2020 The Stats SteveApril 2, 2021January 1, 2022 Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2020 Summary SteveJanuary 17, 2021January 1, 2022 A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Watering and tidying SteveAugust 2, 2020 Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
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…
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…
Leeks and netting SteveJuly 15, 2020 Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
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…
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…
Problem with wind… SteveJuly 5, 2020 Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Rain – Sun – Fruit SteveJune 21, 2020 A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Cutting down trees SteveJune 15, 2020 Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
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…
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…
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…
Eating radish SteveMay 10, 2020 The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
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…